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  • It is 113 years today since Max Frisch was born.

    The Swiss author Max Frisch was born in Zurich, Switzerland. His father was an architect. Frisch dreamed of becoming an author from an early age, and in the early 1930s he began to read German literature and linguistics at the University of Zurich. Although disenchanted with university, he became influenced by prominent teachers such as Walter Muschg.
    When his father suddenly died in 1932,...

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Författarporträtt av Muller, Marcia

Muller, Marcia
1944 -

American detective story writer, born in Detroit, Michigan, in a family with great literary interests. She wrote her first...

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Författarporträtt av Whitaker, Chris

Whitaker, Chris
1981 -

English author and former stock-broker, born and grew up in London. Nowadays he lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and...

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Författarporträtt av Pleijel, Agneta

Pleijel, Agneta
1940 -

The Swedish author and journalist Agneta Pleijel was born in Stockholm. She grew up in Stockholm, Lund and Princeton, USA....

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Författarporträtt av Brontë, Anne

Brontë, Anne
1820 - 1849

Anne Brontë was the youngest and least known of the three Brontë sisters. She grew up together with her sisters Charlotte a...

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