Mickiewicz, Adam
1798 - 1855

The Polish author Adam Mickiewicz grew up in the village of Zaosie near Novogrudok, then the Lithuanian part of the former...

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Hemingway, Ernest
1899 - 1961

American author, born in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His father Clarence was a doctor and his mother Grace a...

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Zangwill, Israel
1864 - 1926

Israel Zangwill was a British Jewish author. His father had emigrated from Lithuania and his mother was a Polish refugee....

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Kallifatides, Theodor
1938 -

Theodor Kallifatides was born in the village of Molaoi in the Peloponnese in Greece. His father was an elementary school...

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