Martinson, Harry
1904 - 1978

Harry Martinson was born in Jämshög in Blekinge. He had a difficult and unhappy childhood. His father, who largely was a...

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Jansson, Tove
1914 - 2001

Finland-Swedish author and visual artist. Tove Jansson was born and grew up in an artist home in Helsinki. Her home...

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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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NDiaye, Marie
1967 -

The French novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye was born in Pithiviers, Loiret, about fifty kilometres south of Paris. When...

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