Mickiewicz, Adam
1798 - 1855

The Polish author Adam Mickiewicz grew up in the village of Zaosie near Novogrudok, then the Lithuanian part of the former...

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Lévy, Henri-Bernard
1948 -

French author and philosopher born in Béni Saf, Algeria. His father, a member of the French Jewish community, came from a ...

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Watson, Colin
1920 - 1983

Some refer to the British journalist Colin Watson's Flaxborough (population 15,000) stories as among the funniest in...

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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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