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It is 77 years today since Salman Rushdie was born.
Salman Rushdie is the undisputed pioneer and mentor for the Indian-English literary generation which made its breakthrough in the 1980s. He was born in Bombay as the son of a Cambridge-educated businessman. His paternal grandfather wrote poetry in Urdu. In the Muslim family they spoke both English and Urdu. Eventually the family took part in the Muslim emigration to Pakistan and settled in...
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It is 53 years today since Denise Rudberg was born.
Denise Rudberg is dubbed the queen of Swedish chick lit, and she has scored commercial high points in Sweden as well as in other countries, not least in the US. A common denominator for most of her novels is the chronicling of a wealthy upper class. Financially independent persons have access to a closed world where common people seldom tread. Education and work are areas of fun and...
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It is 53 years today since Anders De la Motte was born.
The Swedish author, and former police officer and security director, Anders de la Motte was born in Billesholm in north-western Skåne. He completed his schooling with a three-year Economics study course at the Tycho Brahe grammar school in Helsingborg, matriculating in 1990. The following year, he started his military service which included time in the military police, and he later became an ...
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![Författarporträtt av MacDonald, Philip](images/writer/4925/4925_20120701103304.jpg)
MacDonald, Philip
1899 - 1981
The English crime writer Philip MacDonald was born in London. Both his grandfather George and his father Ronald were...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Perec, Georges](images/writer/1358/5c25c9bc75490c203097cad6049a9a3030c1961324d5a.jpg)
Perec, Georges
1936 - 1982
George Perec's Jewish parents emigrated from Poland to France in the 1920s. His father served in the war and was killed in...
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Malory, Thomas
1416 - 1471
Sir Thomas Malory is known as the most likely author (or compiler) of the Le Morte d'Arthur (approx. 1470). The title of...
Further reading![Portrait of Serhij Zjadan](images/writer/6328/6225517310405abb5bf9d519772a06f028647a8f63ad7.jpg)
Zhadan, Serhiy
1974 -
The activist, poet, novelist, essayist, song writer, critic and translator from German, Belarusian and Russian, Serhiy...
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