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Böll, Heinrich
1917 - 1985
German author born in Cologne. Böll was brought up a Roman Catholic in a middle-class family with pacifist and anti-Nazi ...
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Kadaré, Ismaïl
1936 -
Albanian author born in Gjirokastër in southern Albania near the border with Greece. His father was a postman. Ismail ...
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Tucholsky, Kurt
1890 - 1935
The German author Kurt Tucholsky was born in the Moabit district of Berlin to a wealthy Jewish banking family. Despite...
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Montaigne, Michel de
1533 - 1592
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was born in a wealthy merchant family that had lived for generations in the ancestral castle...
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