Laxness, Halldór
1902 - 1998

Icelandic author born in Reykjavik as Halldór Guðjónsson. When he was three years old his parents, Guðjón Helgason and Sigr...

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Lispector, Clarice
1920 - 1977

The Brazilian author Clarice Lispector was born in the Jewish village of Chechelnyk in southern Ukraine. Her family...

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Robinson, Peter
1950 - 2022

Peter Robinson is a Canadian author born in Castleford, Yorkshire, England. He was a wayward teenager with little interest...

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Crispin, Edmund
1921 - 1978

Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym for Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English pianist and organist, composer and author of...

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