Antunes, António Lobo
1942 -

The Portuguese author António Antunes was born and raised in Benfica, a prosperous Lisbon suburb, as the oldest of six ...

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Adonis
1930 -

Adonis, or Adunis, is the alias of the Syrian-Lebanese poet Ali Ahmad Said. Said was born in a poor farming community in...

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Carroll, Lewis
1832 - 1898

Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of the English author and mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, born in Daresbury,...

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Almqvist, Carl Jonas Love
1793 - 1866

Swedish author, born in Stockholm and raised at the estate of Antuna some distance to the north of the city. The father...

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