Sample of Authors
![Portrait of Peter Corris](images/writer/6766/609a8cdf851ac87d6bb56ffa11c19228e8fa95621be7d.jpg)
Corris, Peter
1942 - 2018
Peter Robert Corris was an Australian author, historian, journalist and pioneering author of crime fiction in Australia....
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Gao Xingjian](images/writer/2799/wm_BR_2799_20141209164752_Large.jpg)
Gao Xingjian
1940 -
Chinese author and artist born in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province in eastern China. His father was a bank clerk and his mother an...
Further reading![Portrait of John Updike](images/writer/1769/662a637e65e9ce0f89c75e02f97225dc1507ffb8916e0.jpg)
Updike, John
1932 - 2009
American author, born in the small town of Shillington in Pennsylvania, where also his earliest works take place, but then...
Further reading![Portrait of Wislawa Szymborska](images/writer/1683/603ce1f507d9ca643bd248843ec58bb4cac2346b4cb02.jpg)
Szymborska, Wislawa
1923 - 2012
The poet, essayist and translator Maria Wislawa Anna Szymborska was born in Prowent, near Bnin, now part of Kórnik, Poland. ...
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