Sample of Authors
Richardson, Samuel
1689 - 1761
Samuel Richardson was born in Derbyshire as the son of a carpenter. The family could not afford to send him to school, so...
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Mistral, Gabriela
1889 - 1957
The Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral was born in Vicuña as Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga. She came from a...
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Södergran, Edith
1892 - 1923
The Finland-Swedish poet Edith Södergran was born in St. Petersburg, but her family soon moved to the village of Raivola on ...
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Zhadan, Serhiy
1974 -
The activist, poet, novelist, essayist, song writer, critic and translator from German, Belarusian and Russian, Serhiy...
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