Westö, Kjell
1961 -

Kjell Westö is a Finland-Swedish author and journalist who writes in Swedish. He grew up in an upper middleclass family ...

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Woolf, Virginia
1882 - 1941

The English author Virginia Woolf, born Stephen, grew up in an educated higher middle-class family in Hyde Park in London....

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Milton, John
1608 - 1674

The English poet John Milton was born in London as the son of a wealthy Catholic burgher. He attended Christ's College,...

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Dante Alighieri
1265 - 1321

The Italian poet Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, referred to as Dante, was born in Florence to an old, noble, but no...

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