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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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Tournier, Michel
1924 - 2016
Michel Edouard Tournier was born in Paris. His parents met at the Sorbonne, where they both studied German. For this...
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Ball, John
1911 - 1988
John Dudley Ball was an American author, editor and music critic whose award-winning crime novel In the Heat of the Night...
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Norman, Diana
1933 - 2011
The British author and journalist Diana Norman has become known for her historical novels, some of which were published...
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DeMille, Nelson
1943 -
Nelson Richard DeMille is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. He was born in Queens, New York, to a...
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