Djebar, Assia
1936 - 2015

Assia Djebar, born as Fatima-Zohra Imalayène, was a French-speaking Algerian author born in 1936 in Cherchell, a small ...

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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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Gercke, Doris
1937 -

Doris Gercke is a German author of crime fiction born in Greifswald in the former East Germany. She grew up in a working...

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Saadawi, Nawal El
1931 - 2021

Nawal El Saadawi was an Egyptian writer and feminist. She was born and raised in a child-rich family in the small village...

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