Lessing, Doris
1919 - 2013

The British author Doris May Lessing was born in Kermanshah in Persia (present-day Iran) and grew up in South Rhodesia...

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Smirnoff, Karin
1964 -

Karin Smirnoff has the same name as August Strindberg’s daughter, dramatist and author Karin Smirnoff (1880-1973) who also w...

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Parra, Nicanor
1914 - 2018

Nicano Segundo Parra Sandoval was a Chilean, self-confessed "antipoet", artist, mathematician and physicist born in San...

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Kutscher, Volker
1962 -

The German author Volker Kutscher was born in Lindlar and grew up in Wipperfürth near Köln (Cologne). He studied Germanic L...

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