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It is 77 years today since Salman Rushdie was born.
Salman Rushdie is the undisputed pioneer and mentor for the Indian-English literary generation which made its breakthrough in the 1980s. He was born in Bombay as the son of a Cambridge-educated businessman. His paternal grandfather wrote poetry in Urdu. In the Muslim family they spoke both English and Urdu. Eventually the family took part in the Muslim emigration to Pakistan and settled in...
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It is 53 years today since Denise Rudberg was born.
Denise Rudberg is dubbed the queen of Swedish chick lit, and she has scored commercial high points in Sweden as well as in other countries, not least in the US. A common denominator for most of her novels is the chronicling of a wealthy upper class. Financially independent persons have access to a closed world where common people seldom tread. Education and work are areas of fun and...
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It is 53 years today since Anders De la Motte was born.
The Swedish author, and former police officer and security director, Anders de la Motte was born in Billesholm in north-western Skåne. He completed his schooling with a three-year Economics study course at the Tycho Brahe grammar school in Helsingborg, matriculating in 1990. The following year, he started his military service which included time in the military police, and he later became an ...
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Conroy, Pat
1945 - 2016
The American author Donald Patrick "Pat" Conroy was born in Atlanta, Georgia, as the oldest of seven siblings. His father,...
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Blok, Aleksandr
1880 - 1921
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok is one of the great masters of Russian symbolism. He combined the early Russian literary...
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Ammaniti, Niccolò
1966 -
The Italian author Niccolò Ammaniti was born in Rome to a middle-class family. He studied biology at university and because ...
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Ceder, Camilla
1976 -
Camilla Ceder grew up in Olofstorp near Gothenburg. She studied social work and psychotherapy and now lives in Gothenburg...
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