Bulgakov, Mikhail
1891 - 1940

The Russian prose writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev and grew up in a snug middle class environment – h...

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Turow, Scott
1949 -

Scott Frederick Turow is an American author born in Chicago, Illinois, where his father was working as a physicist. Both...

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Shaw, George Bernard
1856 - 1950

Irish author and Nobel Prize laureate born in Dublin to a middle-class family. His father was an alcoholic and his mother...

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Seferis, Giorgos
1900 - 1971

The first Nobel Prize laureate to come out of Greece was born Georgios Seferiades in Urla near Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey),...

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