Feuchtwanger, Lion
1884 - 1958

The German author of prose, playwright, translator and critic Lion Jacob Arje Feuchtwanger grew up in a wealthy Jewish...

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Eco, Umberto
1932 - 2016

Umberto Eco was an Italian author, literary scholar, historian and philosopher born in Alessandria in Piedmont. His surname...

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Darwish, Mahmoud
1941 - 2008

The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish was born in the village of al-Birweh in Western Gallilee to a landowning family. His...

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Wilde, Oscar
1854 - 1900

Oscar Wilde was born in a physician's family in Dublin in 1854. His mother had literary interests. Wilde later attended...

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