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  • It is 71 years today since Lars Saabye Christensen was born.

    Norwegian author who grew up in the Oslo suburb Skillebekk. He also lived for several years in Sortland in northern Norway, two places he keeps returning to in his books. Christensen read Norwegian, literature, history of ideas and art at university. He now lives in Oslo.
    Lars Saabye Christensen is committed to help promote new talent in Norway. Between 1986 and the early nineties, he edited...

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  • It is 77 years today since Stephen King was born.

    Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and philanderer (King has a half-sister in Brazil), went through a number of aliases before he changed his surname to King. When Stephen was two years old, his father went out to by cigarettes and never came back. Stephen grew up in poor circumstances with his mother Ruth and his adopted...

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Wilde, Oscar
1854 - 1900

Oscar Wilde was born in a physician's family in Dublin. His mother had literary interests. Wilde later attended Trinity...

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Verlaine, Paul
1844 - 1896

Paul Verlaine, one of the finest early modern poets, was born in Metz in north-east France where his father, an army...

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Kallentoft, Mons
1968 -

Mons Kallentoft is a Swedish writer and journalist born in Ljungsbro near Linköping. He began to write at the age of ...

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Ibsen, Henrik
1828 - 1906

The Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen was born the son of a merchant in the small town of Skien. When he was eight years...

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