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It is 165 years today since Arthur Conan Doyle was born.
Scottish author with Irish ancestry, born in Edinburgh. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, worked as a civil servant, but was also a painter and illustrator. He was sickly, become seriously alcoholic over the years and was admitted into psychiatric care in 1885. He died in 1893. It was Arthur’s mother, Mary, born Foley, who instead held the family together, struggling to give her son a good e...
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It is 75 years today since Aino Trosell was born.
Trosell is a Swedish writer, born in the town of Malung where she grew up in a blue-collar family. In 1967, Aino Trosell moved to Gothenburg where she combined her high school studies with work at a psychiatric institution and a tobacco company. After graduating with a Bachelor of Social Services from the Social Work College in 1974, she took on employment as a social worker, but found the job...
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Mann, Thomas
1875 - 1955
The German novelist and short story writer Thomas Mann was born in Lübeck. His father, who was a senator and wealthy ...
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Musil, Robert
1880 - 1942
Austrian writer, born in Klagenfurt, as the son of an engineer who later became a professor. Robert Musil received his...
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Haynes, Elizabeth
1971 -
Elizabeth Haynes is a British author of crime fiction. She grew up in Seaford, Sussex and read English, German and Art...
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Timm, Uwe
1940 -
The German author Uwe Timm was born in Hamburg as the third and youngest child of the family. His father fought in the...
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