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![Författarporträtt av Ritsos, Yiannis](images/writer/1442/1442_20151020103031_Large.jpg)
Ritsos, Yiannis
1909 - 1990
Yiannis Ritsos was born in Monemvasia on the east coast of the Peloponnese peninsula. His parents were landowners. His...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Matute, Ana María](images/writer/2609/2609_20140313082830.jpg)
Matute, Ana María
1925 - 2014
Ana María Matute was a Spanish author born in a wealthy, conservative family in Barcelona as the second of five children. ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Roth, Henry](images/writer/1452/1452_20151106092701.jpg)
Roth, Henry
1906 - 1995
The American author Henry Roth was born in Galicia, the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Ukraine). He was born to Jewish...
Further reading![Portrait of Pierre Lemaitre](images/writer/6274/609560f0f24d95a9b947799d2c7c426d41b31fb4850dd.jpg)
Lemaitre, Pierre
1951 -
Pierre Lemaitre is one of France’s foremost noir novelists. The rather limited work of the award-winning author has been t...
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