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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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Gorky, Maxim
1868 - 1936
Russian author, born and raised in Nizhny Novgorod at the Volga River. His real name was Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, but he...
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Carey, Peter
1943 -
The Australian author Peter Philip Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, where his parents ran a General Motors...
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Jacobsen, Roy
1954 -
Norwegian author born in Oslo where he grew up in a working-class suburb, but he spent his teenage years in North Norway....
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Brooks, Terry
1944 -
The prolific American author of fantasy fiction, Terrence Dean Brooks, better known as Terry Brooks, was born in Sterling,...
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