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It is 89 years today since André Brink was born.
André Brink was a South-African author born in Vrede, the Orange Free State of South Africa. His father was a magistrate and a deeply religious man; his mother was a teacher. André Brink moved to Lydenburg in the north where he left college with top grades in 1952. He went on to read languages at the University of Potchefstroom in the province of Transvaal, then, as well as now, a base for A...
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It is 72 years today since Pia Tafdrup was born.
The Danish author Pia Tafdrup was born in Copenhagen, grew up in the countryside on North Jutland and later attended the University of Copenhagen. Pia Tafdrup's books have been translated to some thirty languages. In 1999, the poetry collection Queen's Gate was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize, and in 2006 Tafdrup received the Swedish Academy Nordic prize for life achievement. Pia...
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It is 69 years today since Tom Kristensen was born.
Tom Kristensen is a Norwegian economist, engineer and author born in Tjøme, Vestfold county. He has won fame as a writer of financial thrillers. Kristensen was educated at Kongsberg Engineering College and at the Bergen School of Economics, graduating in 1981. He later worked for Statens Teknologiske Institutt in Kristiansand until he moved to Oslo.
He first worked as a financial adviser at an ...
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James, Henry
1843 - 1916
Henry James was an American author born in New York to a wealthy, intellectual family of Irish and Scottish origin. His...
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Burke, J.C.
1965 -
J.C. Burke is an Australian author and nurse. Jane Burke was born in Sydney as the fourth of five sisters. Both her parents...
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Sappho
c. 630 BCE - c. 570 BCE
Thanks to the Athenian politician and poet Solon we know that the lyrical poet Sappho from the island of Lesbos was both...
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Restrepo, Laura
1950 -
Laura Restrepo is a Latin-American journalist and author born in Bogotá, Colombia. She was the elder of two sisters who ...
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