Gordimer, Nadine
1923 - 2014

South-African novelist born in Springs, now in the province of Gauteng, (part of what was formerly the Transvaal), not far...

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Turèll, Dan
1946 - 1993

Danish novelist and poet who was something as unusual as a well-respected and genuinely popular cultural figure. He was...

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Gaboriau, Émile
1832 - 1873

While Edgar Allan Poe, the American author of short stories, is generally considered to be the father of modern crime...

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Krabbé, Tim
1943 -

Hans Maarten Timotheus Krabbé was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he still lives. His father, Maarten Krabbé, and h...

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