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It is 97 years today since Robert Ludlum was born.
The American thriller writer, theatre producer and actor Robert Ludlum were born in New York, but his family moved to New Jersey when he was just a baby and it was there he grew up. His father was a business man and the young son received an education at private schools across Connecticut: Rectory School in Pomfret, Kent School in Kent, Chesire Academy in Chesire and Wesleyan University in...
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Darwish, Mahmoud
1941 - 2008
The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish was born in the village of al-Birweh in Western Gallilee to a landowning family. His...
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Akunin, Boris
1956 -
Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was...
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Murakami, Haruki
1949 -
Haruki Murakami grew up as an only child in a traditional Japanese family. Both parents taught Japanese literature and his...
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Grossman, David
1954 -
David Grossman is an Israeli author and journalist born in Jerusalem to Polish Jewish parents. His father, Yitzhak...
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