Achebe, Chinua
1930 - 2013

Nigerian writer born in the Igbo town of Ogidi, South-East Nigeria. His parents, Isaiah Okafor Achebe and Janet Ileogbunam,...

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Cixous, Hélène
1937 -

The French philosopher, scholar and author Hélène Cixous is a leading post-structuralist feminist scholar alongside Luce I...

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Nilsson, Per
1954 -

Swedish author, born in Malmö. Per Nilsson qualified as a teacher of Music and Mathematics. He worked as a secondary school ...

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McCloy, Helen
1904 - 1992

Helen McCloy is an American crime writer born in New York. She grew up in a book-loving family. Her mother, Helen Worrell...

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