Ionesco, Eugène
1909 - 1994

The playwright and author Eugène Ionesco was born in Romania to a Romanian father and a French mother. The family moved to ...

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Mishima, Yukio
1925 - 1970

His real name is Kimitake Hiraoka, a Japanese author born in Tokyo, where he mainly grew up with his grandmother. His...

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Dibdin, Michael
1947 - 2007

Michael Dibdin was a British crime writer born in Wolverhampton. His father was a teacher. The family moved to Northern...

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Lewis, Mary
1907 - 1988

Writing as Christianna Brand, Mary Lewis, born Mary Christianna Milne, was one of Britain’s foremost crime writers and c...

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