Rifbjerg, Klaus
1931 - 2015

Danish author born to a middle-class family in Copenhagen. Both parents were teachers who read newspapers across the...

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Tolkien, J.R.R.
1892 - 1973

The English author, poet and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, then in the Orange Free State...

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Schlink, Bernhard
1944 -

The German lawyer and author Bernhard Schlink was born in Grossdornberg (now part of the city of Bielefeld) and grew up in...

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Hardy, Thomas
1840 - 1928

The English author Thomas Hardy was born in Stinsford near Dorchester in Dorset, the son of a stonemason and local builder....

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