Colette, Gabrielle
1873 - 1954

French author, born in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye in Bourgogne. Her real name was Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, but as an author...

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Updike, John
1932 - 2009

American author, born in the small town of Shillington in Pennsylvania, where also his earliest works take place, but then...

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Montale, Eugenio
1896 - 1981

The Italian poet and translator Eugenio Montale was born to a middle-class family in Genoa. He was the youngest of seven...

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Nilsson, Per
1954 -

Swedish author, born in Malmö. Per Nilsson qualified as a teacher of Music and Mathematics. He worked as a secondary school ...

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