Becker, Jurek
1937 - 1997

The German author Jurek Becker was born as Jerzy Bekker in Lódz, Poland. Because all documents were destroyed in the war, ...

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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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Hamilton, Steve
1961 -

The American crime-fiction writer Steve Hamilton was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in White Lake in the same...

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Smith, Julie
1944 -

American author and published, was born in Annapolis, Maryland, and grew up in Savannah in Georgia. She studied Creative...

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