Simon, Claude
1913 - 2005

Claude Simon was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, where his father was an officer in the French colonial army. After his...

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Egeland, Tom
1959 -

Norwegian author and journalist, born in Oslo and raised in the suburb of Kalbakken in Groruddalen, where his parents had a...

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Chacón, Dulce
1954 - 2003

Spanish novelist, poet and playwright born in Zafra, Extremadura, in western Spain to an aristocratic, right wing family....

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Enzensberger, Hans Magnus
1929 - 2022

The German author and poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger was the oldest of four brothers born to middle-class parents in the...

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