Lispector, Clarice
1920 - 1977

The Brazilian author Clarice Lispector was born in the Jewish village of Chechelnyk in southern Ukraine. Her family...

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Simon, Claude
1913 - 2005

Claude Simon was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, where his father was an officer in the French colonial army. After his...

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Musil, Robert
1880 - 1942

Austrian writer, born in Klagenfurt, as the son of an engineer who later became a professor. Robert Musil received his...

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Orczy, Emmuska
1865 - 1947

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi, or Emmuska, which she preferred to be called, was born in...

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