Canetti, Elias
1905 - 1994

The prose writer and playwright Elias Canetti was born in the city of Rustchuk (or Ruse) in Bulgaria. His father, who was a...

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Schlink, Bernhard
1944 -

The German lawyer and author Bernhard Schlink was born in Grossdornberg (now part of the city of Bielefeld) and grew up in...

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Tokarczuk, Olga
1962 -

Polish author, born in the little village Klenica in western Poland, where her parents were teachers at a residential...

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Yaffe, James
1927 - 2017

The American writer James Yaffe is the youngest author ever to have had short stories printed in the prestigious Ellery...

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