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  • It is 109 years today since Saul Bellow was born.

    American author, born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, but mainly raised in Chicago, where his family moved in 1924. Saul Bellow grew up as the youngest child in a Russian-Jewish family who had left St. Petersburg in 1913. His father was a businessman. Bellow got his education at Tuley High School and the University of Chicago before moving to Northwestern University, where he obtained a degree in...

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  • It is 88 years today since Brian Freemantle was born.

    Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...

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Författarporträtt av Lundkvist, Artur

Lundkvist, Artur
1906 - 1991

Swedish author, poet, and critic, and a member of the Swedish academy, born and raised in Oderljunga in the county of...

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Portrait image of Kerstin Ekman

Ekman, Kerstin
1933 -

Kerstin Lillemor Ekman (born Hjort) is one of Sweden's foremost living novelists. She was born in Finspång and grew up in ...

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Författarporträtt av Cunningham, Michael

Cunningham, Michael
1952 -

Michael Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, grew up in Pasadena, California, and studied at Stanford and the...

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Författarporträtt av Sontag, Susan

Sontag, Susan
1933 - 2004

Susan Sontag was an American author, critic, filmmaker and political activist. She was born in New York as the daughter of...

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