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![Författarporträtt av Alexievich, Svetlana](images/writer/3944/wm_BR_59b297411379099090bb142f8feda028da301affa4844.jpg)
Alexievich, Svetlana
1948 -
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ukraine three years after the Second World War. She grew up in a village in Belorussia...
Further reading![Portrait image of Dick Francis](images/writer/562/62a8a434dfeb32c0b07d3e21b34a0baea2de1c4ff56d9.jpg)
Francis, Dick
1920 - 2010
The British jockey and author Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis is famous worldwide both as a champion jockey – at one time j...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Gao Xingjian](images/writer/2799/wm_BR_2799_20141209164752_Large.jpg)
Gao Xingjian
1940 -
Chinese author and artist born in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province in eastern China. His father was a bank clerk and his mother an...
Further reading![Portrait of Friedrich Dürrenmatt](images/writer/430/604faa16a71fe32f0e5fadd93cf2eaecfdf860b889e9b.jpg)
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
1921 - 1990
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a German-language, Swiss author, playwright and social critic. He was born in the town of Stalden ...
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