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It is 75 years today since Ken Follett was born.
British author and journalist born in Cardiff, Wales. Kenneth "Ken" Follett’s parents were active members of the church of the Plymouth Brethren, and as a child he was not allowed to watch television. Instead he read profusely; his first favourite author was Shakespeare. Follett graduated from University College London in 1970 and began to write about rock music for the Cardiff-based South Wales E...
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It is 87 years today since Hélène Cixous was born.
The French philosopher, scholar and author Hélène Cixous is a leading post-structuralist feminist scholar alongside Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva. Cixous was born in 1937 to a Jewish family in Oran, Algeria. Her father was a Sephardic Jew from a Moroccan background, his mother was a German refugee born in Osnabrück. Cixous came from a multi-lingual family that spoke German, French, Spanish, Ar...
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Chatterton, Thomas
1752 - 1770
British poet and satirist born in Bristol where he grew up in the shadow of the city's magnificent 15th century cathedral,...
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Yorke, Margaret
1924 - 2012
Margaret Yorke is the pseudonym of the popular English author of crime fiction Margaret Nicholson. She has been described...
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Seiler, Lutz
1963 -
The German poet Lutz Seiler was born in Gera, Thüringen, in the GDR. When the villages where he spent his first years were ...
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Bloch, Robert
1917 - 1994
Robert Albert Bloch was born in Chicago. He moved with his family to Milwaukee in Wisconsin when he was ten years old. His...
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