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It is 125 years today since Yasunari Kawabata was born.
Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer born in Osaka. He came from an educated, wealthy family, but he lost his parents at an early age and his only sibling, a sister, died when he was nine years old. These childhood traumas came to inform his writing. After growing up with his maternal grandfather in the countryside, Kawabata read English and Japanese literature at...
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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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Jesse, F. Tennyson
1888 - 1958
A versatile English writer and playwright, F. Tennyson Jesse (1888–1958) also worked as a journalist, drawer, and amateur c...
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Van Greenaway, Peter
1929 - 1988
Peter Van Greenaway was a British author of unconventional crime stories that included elements of horror and science...
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Albee, Edward
1928 - 2016
Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright born in Washington DC. His parents abandoned him immediately after he...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Holst, Kirsten](images/writer/6501/6501_20150324110815_Large.jpg)
Holst, Kirsten
1936 - 2008
Kirsten Holst was a Danish author, teacher and editor known for her detective stories and young adult fiction. She was born...
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