Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
1977 -

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in the city of Enugu, southeast Nigeria, to a Christian Igbo family. It was the Igbo that...

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Roth, Philip
1933 - 2018

Philip Milton Roth was an American author born in Newark, New Jersey, where he grew up in a Jewish family together with his...

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Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
1921 - 1990

Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a German-language, Swiss author, playwright and social critic. He was born in the town of Stalden ...

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Tafdrup, Pia
1952 -

The Danish author Pia Tafdrup was born in Copenhagen, grew up in the countryside on North Jutland and later attended the...

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