Stendhal
1783 - 1842

French author born in Grenoble as Marie-Henri Beyle. His father was a lawyer. Beyle went to Paris as a young man where he...

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Seifert, Jaroslav
1901 - 1986

The Czech poet Jaroslav Seifert was born in the deprived working class district of Zizkov in Prague. He joined the...

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Zangwill, Israel
1864 - 1926

Israel Zangwill was a British Jewish author. His father had emigrated from Lithuania and his mother was a Polish refugee....

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Tvedt, Chris
1954 -

The Norwegian author Baard Christian Tvedt was born in Bergen. He read architecture at the University of Birmingham, but...

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