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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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Kunzru, Hari
1969 -
The British novelist Hari Kunzru was born in London to a Kashmiri Pandit father and an English mother. He read literature...
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Unsworth, Barry
1930 - 2012
The British author Barry Unsworth was born to a family of miners in County Durham, northeast England. They moved away from...
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Ghosh, Amitav
1956 -
Amitav Ghosh is among the most prominent of a generation of Anglo-Indian writers that came to the fore in the 1980s. He was...
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Lidman, Sara
1923 - 2004
Swedish author, born in Missenträsk in Västerbotten, where she grew up in a freeholder environment characterized by C...
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