Cendrars, Blaise
1887 - 1961

The Swiss-French author Blaise Cendrars was born as Frédéric-Louis Sauser in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. His f...

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Gercke, Doris
1937 -

Doris Gercke is a German author of crime fiction born in Greifswald in the former East Germany. She grew up in a working...

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Montale, Eugenio
1896 - 1981

The Italian poet and translator Eugenio Montale was born to a middle-class family in Genoa. He was the youngest of seven...

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Trevor, William
1928 - 2016

William Trevor Cox was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, the Republic of Ireland, as the son of a Protestant bank...

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