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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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Eustis, Helen
1916 - 2015
The American writer and translator Helen White Eustis was what would in a musical context be called a "one hit wonder". Her...
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MacInnes, Helen
1907 - 1985
Helen Clark MacInnes was a Scottish-American author born in Glasgow. She moved with her family to Helensburgh in 1912 where...
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Sarrazin, Albertine
1937 - 1967
French author born out of wedlock in Algiers to a French colonel and military surgeon and his fifteen-year-old Jewish...
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Roth, Philip
1933 - 2018
Philip Milton Roth was an American author born in Newark, New Jersey, where he grew up in a Jewish family together with his...
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