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It is 133 years today since Pär Lagerkvist was born.
Swedish author, born in Växjö as the youngest of seven siblings. His father was a railway station supervisor, and Pär Lagerkvist grew up in an apartment above the railway station restaurant. There was a strong cohesion within his family. The family was influenced by the rural environment from which it originated, and a pious and conservative Christian faith prevailed in the home. There were only t...
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Valtinos, Thanassis
1932 -
The Greek novelist and screenwriter Thanassis Valtinos was born in the village of Karatoulas, Arcadia, in the Peleponnese....
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McDermid, Val
1955 -
Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer born in Kirkcaldy, Fife. She attended Kirkcaldy High School where she was among a...
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Strindberg, August
1849 - 1912
Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish author born in Stockholm to a large middle-class family. His father was head of the...
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Sagan, Françoise
1935 - 2004
Françoise Sagan got her pseudonym as an author from Duchess Sagan in Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" (À la r...
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