Matute, Ana María
1925 - 2014

Ana María Matute was a Spanish author born in a wealthy, conservative family in Barcelona as the second of five children. ...

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Jong, Erica
1942 -

Erica Jong is an American author born in New York as Erica Mann to Jewish parents of Polish and Russian descent. Her father...

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Nádas, Péter
1942 -

Péter Nádas is Hungary's most famous internationally acclaimed author. He is of Jewish descent, born in Budapest. Although h...

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Böll, Heinrich
1917 - 1985

German author born in Cologne. Böll was brought up a Roman Catholic in a middle-class family with pacifist and anti-Nazi ...

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