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It is 89 years today since André Brink was born.
André Brink was a South-African author born in Vrede, the Orange Free State of South Africa. His father was a magistrate and a deeply religious man; his mother was a teacher. André Brink moved to Lydenburg in the north where he left college with top grades in 1952. He went on to read languages at the University of Potchefstroom in the province of Transvaal, then, as well as now, a base for A...
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It is 72 years today since Pia Tafdrup was born.
The Danish author Pia Tafdrup was born in Copenhagen, grew up in the countryside on North Jutland and later attended the University of Copenhagen. Pia Tafdrup's books have been translated to some thirty languages. In 1999, the poetry collection Queen's Gate was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize, and in 2006 Tafdrup received the Swedish Academy Nordic prize for life achievement. Pia...
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It is 69 years today since Tom Kristensen was born.
Tom Kristensen is a Norwegian economist, engineer and author born in Tjøme, Vestfold county. He has won fame as a writer of financial thrillers. Kristensen was educated at Kongsberg Engineering College and at the Bergen School of Economics, graduating in 1981. He later worked for Statens Teknologiske Institutt in Kristiansand until he moved to Oslo.
He first worked as a financial adviser at an ...
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Trosell, Aino
1949 -
Trosell is a Swedish writer, born in the town of Malung where she grew up in a blue-collar family. In 1967, Aino Trosell...
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Aird, Catherine
1930 -
Catherine Aird is the pen name of the British crime writer Kinn Hamilton McIntosh. She was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire,...
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Rimbaud, Arthur
1854 - 1891
French author born in the industrial city of Charleville near the Belgian border. Rimbaud was the youngest son of an army...
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Mosley, Walter
1952 -
American author, born in the tough and run-down South Central district in Los Angeles. His mother had a Russian-Jewish...
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