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It is 125 years today since Yasunari Kawabata was born.
Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer born in Osaka. He came from an educated, wealthy family, but he lost his parents at an early age and his only sibling, a sister, died when he was nine years old. These childhood traumas came to inform his writing. After growing up with his maternal grandfather in the countryside, Kawabata read English and Japanese literature at...
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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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Koestler, Arthur
1905 - 1983
The British author and journalist Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest to a Hungarian father and an Austrian mother who...
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Hamilton, Donald
1916 - 2006
Swedish-American author, born in Uppsala as Donald Bengtsson Hamilton. When he was a child, his father, who was a doctor,...
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Tzara, Tristan
1896 - 1963
Tristan Tzara was a French-Romanian poet born in the city of Moinesti, Romania, as Samuel Rosenstock. He began to use the...
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Sinclair, Upton
1878 - 1968
Upton Sinclair was an American author born as Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, who came from a...
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