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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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Woolrich, Cornell
1903 - 1968
The American author Cornell Woolrich is one of the more eccentric authors of the 20th century. He was an anti-social...
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Linna, Väinö
1920 - 1992
Finnish author born in Urjala as the seventh child in a working class family of ten children. His father, a butcher, died...
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Lesage, Alain René
1668 - 1747
Alain-René Lesage was a French playwright and novelist born in Bretagne. He read law in Paris and practiced briefly before ...
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Ammaniti, Niccolò
1966 -
The Italian author Niccolò Ammaniti was born in Rome to a middle-class family. He studied biology at university and because ...
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