Grass, Günter
1927 - 2015

Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German author born in Danzig (present-day Gdansk in Poland) to German-Polish parents. His father ...

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Waugh, Evelyn
1903 - 1966

Evelyn Arthur Saint John Waugh was born in London. His father was a publisher and his older brother Alec a novelist and...

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Hamid, Mohsin
1971 -

Mohsin Hamid was born in Pakistan. His father was a first generation Pakistani born in 1947, the year of partition. Mohsin...

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Becker, Jurek
1937 - 1997

The German author Jurek Becker was born as Jerzy Bekker in Lódz, Poland. Because all documents were destroyed in the war, ...

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