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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Blasim, Hassan
1973 -

The author and filmmaker Hassan Blasim was born in Baghdad, Iraq, as one of nine siblings in a Shiite family. He was...

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Sienkiewicz, Henryk
1846 - 1916

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz was a Polish author born in Wola Okrzejska in Poland, then controlled by Russia....

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Ludlum, Robert
1927 - 2001

The American thriller writer, theatre producer and actor Robert Ludlum were born in New York, but his family moved to New...

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