Krasznahorkai, László
1954 -

The Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai has been mentioned in connection with the Nobel Prize since the early 2000s. He w...

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Atwood, Margaret
1939 -

Canadian author, born in Ottawa and grew up in Ontario, Quebec and Toronto. Her parents, Carl Edmund Atwood and Margaret...

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Cărtărescu, Mircea
1956 -

The Romanian prosaist and poet Mircea Cărtărescu was born and raised in Bucharest together with his sister. Both his m...

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Maugham, W. Somerset
1874 - 1965

William Somerset Maugham was a British author born in Paris. His father was a lawyer at the British Embassy there. When...

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