Musso, Guillaume
1974 -

Frenchman who has written a number of thrillers which have been translated into many languages, and who is said to be the...

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Sagan, Françoise
1935 - 2004

Françoise Sagan got her pseudonym as an author from Duchess Sagan in Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" (À la r...

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Beauvoir, Simone de
1908 - 1986

The French author and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir was born and grew up as the oldest daughter of a noble Catholic family...

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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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