Ionesco, Eugène
1909 - 1994

The playwright and author Eugène Ionesco was born in Romania to a Romanian father and a French mother. The family moved to ...

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Janosch
1931 -

Pseudonym for Horst Wessel Eckert. His father christened him Horst Wessel (1907–1930) after an SA-Sturmführer who was ha...

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Naipaul, V.S.
1932 - 2018

V.S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) Naipaul, a West Indian author of Indian descent, born in Chaguanas near Port of Spain on...

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Household, Geoffrey
1900 - 1988

Geoffrey Edward West Household grew up in Bristol where he attended Clifton College in 1914–19. He went on to study English a...

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