Petterson, Per
1952 -

Norwegian author born in Oslo to a working class family with left-wing sympathies. His father was a logger of Swedish...

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Maupassant, Guy de
1850 - 1893

Guy de Maupassant was born at the castle of Miromesnil, not far from Dieppe in Normandie. His family was of noble lineage...

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Morrison, Arthur
1863 - 1945

Arthur Morrison was one of Britain's best-known authors around the turn of the last century on account of his realistic...

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Akunin, Boris
1956 -

Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was...

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