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It is 165 years today since Arthur Conan Doyle was born.
Scottish author with Irish ancestry, born in Edinburgh. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, worked as a civil servant, but was also a painter and illustrator. He was sickly, become seriously alcoholic over the years and was admitted into psychiatric care in 1885. He died in 1893. It was Arthur’s mother, Mary, born Foley, who instead held the family together, struggling to give her son a good e...
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It is 75 years today since Aino Trosell was born.
Trosell is a Swedish writer, born in the town of Malung where she grew up in a blue-collar family. In 1967, Aino Trosell moved to Gothenburg where she combined her high school studies with work at a psychiatric institution and a tobacco company. After graduating with a Bachelor of Social Services from the Social Work College in 1974, she took on employment as a social worker, but found the job...
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Tolstoy, Leo
1828 - 1910
Russian author, born at the estate of Yasnaya Polyana in Tula Province. Leo (Lev Nikolayevich) Tolstoy descended from an...
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Morante, Elsa
1912 - 1985
The Italian author Elsa Morante was born in Rome, where she grew up in the poor working-class district of Testaccio. She...
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Lapidus, Jens
1974 -
Jens Lapidus grew up on the outskirts of Stockholm. His mother was a social worker and his father a journalist who, among...
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Ebersohn, Wessel
1940 -
South African author and magazine editor who was a stubborn opponent of apartheid and was thus harassed by the authorities...
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