Gide, André
1869 - 1951

The French novelist, poet and playwright was born into a wealthy, strictly protestant bourgeois Paris family. His father, a...

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Tuomainen, Antti
1971 -

A Finnish author and journalist who gained international attention with his crime novels. They are translated into a number...

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Turèll, Dan
1946 - 1993

Danish novelist and poet who was something as unusual as a well-respected and genuinely popular cultural figure. He was...

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Verne, Jules
1828 - 1905

French author, born in Nantes. To a large extent, his childhood appears to have been characterized by loneliness; he was...

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