Antunes, António Lobo
1942 -

The Portuguese author António Antunes was born and raised in Benfica, a prosperous Lisbon suburb, as the oldest of six ...

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Akhmatova, Anna
1889 - 1966

The Russian poet Anna Akhmatova was born as Anna Andreyevna Gorenko in Odessa, but she spent most of her childhood in...

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Kazantzakis, Nikos
1883 - 1957

Nikos Kazantzakis was born in Megalokastro (present-day Heraklion) in Crete, which was still under Ottoman rule at the...

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King, Stephen
1947 -

Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and...

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