Temple, Peter
1946 - 2018

Peter Temple was born in South Africa, but left the country in 1980, deeply sickened by the white regime’s apartheid p...

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Burnett, W.R.
1899 - 1982

The American novelist and screenwriter William Riley Burnett was born in Springfield, Ohio, in an influential family. He...

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Palmen, Connie
1955 -

Dutch author born to a Catholic family in Sint Odiliënberg, the Netherlands. In 1978, she went to Amsterdam to study ...

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Banville, John
1945 -

John Banville is one of Ireland’s best known and most prize-winning authors. He was awarded the Booker Prize in 2005, the K...

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