Voors, Barbara
1967 -

Barbara Voors was born in Stockholm and grew up in Tehran, Iran, with her Swedish mother, who worked at the Swedish...

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Aretino, Pietro
1492 - 1556

Italian author born in Arezzo, Tuscany to a poor cobbler. He had little or no schooling, but he was clever and astute, and...

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Woolrich, Cornell
1903 - 1968

The American author Cornell Woolrich is one of the more eccentric authors of the 20th century. He was an anti-social...

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Alexievich, Svetlana
1948 -

Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ukraine three years after the Second World War. She grew up in a village in Belorussia...

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