Canetti, Elias
1905 - 1994

The prose writer and playwright Elias Canetti was born in the city of Rustchuk (or Ruse) in Bulgaria. His father, who was a...

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Salinger, J.D.
1919 - 2010

American author born in New York to a successful Jewish lawyer and cheese importer, and his Scottish-Irish wife. The family...

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Day Lewis, Cecil
1904 - 1972

Irish poet, publisher and professor, and a British citizen from 1948. Cecil Day Lewis is one of the most prominent names in...

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Grünbein, Durs
1962 -

The German poet and essayist Durs Grünbein was born in Dresden in the then DDR (East Germany). The city still clearly ...

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