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It is 133 years today since Pär Lagerkvist was born.
Swedish author, born in Växjö as the youngest of seven siblings. His father was a railway station supervisor, and Pär Lagerkvist grew up in an apartment above the railway station restaurant. There was a strong cohesion within his family. The family was influenced by the rural environment from which it originated, and a pious and conservative Christian faith prevailed in the home. There were only t...
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Voors, Barbara
1967 -
Barbara Voors was born in Stockholm and grew up in Tehran, Iran, with her Swedish mother, who worked at the Swedish...
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Ebersohn, Wessel
1940 -
South African author and magazine editor who was a stubborn opponent of apartheid and was thus harassed by the authorities...
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Duve, Karen
1961 -
The German author Karen Duve was born in Hamburg. After she graduated from upper-secondary school in 1981, she worked as a...
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Melo, Patrícia
1962 -
The Brazilian dramaturge, journalist and author Patrícia Melo is an internationally renowned member of a generation of ...
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