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![Portrait image of John Steinbeck](images/writer/1626/6213c9337fc88d7a97adc50d75ce52cad09967a72ff85.jpg)
Steinbeck, John
1902 - 1968
American author and Nobel Prize winner born in Salinas in California. His mother was a teacher and his father worked in the...
Further reading![Portrait image of Patrícia Melo](images/writer/3472/617a75a668274a4384de4c0fb7d5be18e6b4a9262dfdc.jpg)
Melo, Patrícia
1962 -
The Brazilian dramaturge, journalist and author Patrícia Melo is an internationally renowned member of a generation of ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Elytis, Odysseus](images/writer/472/472_20131005143233.jpg)
Elytis, Odysseus
1911 - 1996
Odysseus Elytis was born Odysseus Alepoudhellis at Heraklion on the island of Crete. He was the youngest of six children....
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Verlaine, Paul](images/writer/1790/5f6b06dae68a67ca477585ade46c260c683dafd4cf12c.jpg)
Verlaine, Paul
1844 - 1896
Paul Verlaine, one of the finest early modern poets, was born in Metz in north-east France where his father, an army...
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