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It is 152 years today since Bertrand Russell was born.
The British philosopher and author Bertrand Arthur William Russel was born in Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Wales, to an aristocratic family that included the former Prime Minister Lord John Russell. His parents were liberal and advocated, among other things, the emancipation of women. Although his godfather was John Stuart Mill, the boy was brought up by his Presbyterian grandmother after he was...
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It is 80 years today since W.G. Sebald was born.
Winfried Georg (W.G.) Sebald was born near the end of the Second World War in the Bavarian mountain village of Wertach where his mother had moved to get away from the bombing of the town of Bamberg. His parents, Rosa and Georg, had three children. His father, an officer of the Wehrmacht who had participated in the invasion of Poland, was a prisoner of war until 1947, but mentioning the war was...
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Claus, Hugo
1929 - 2008
Belgian author. His father worked at a printing office and his mother was a housewife. When a new baby was on its way, his...
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Weiss, Peter
1916 - 1982
Peter Weiss was a German author and visual artist born in Nowawes near Berlin to a family of Hungarian-German origin. His...
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Forster, E.M.
1879 - 1970
The British author Edward Morgan Forster was born in London. His father was an architect. Forster attended King’s College, C...
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Tolstoy, Leo
1828 - 1910
Russian author, born at the estate of Yasnaya Polyana in Tula Province. Leo (Lev Nikolayevich) Tolstoy descended from an...
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