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  • It is 125 years today since Yasunari Kawabata was born.

    Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer born in Osaka. He came from an educated, wealthy family, but he lost his parents at an early age and his only sibling, a sister, died when he was nine years old. These childhood traumas came to inform his writing. After growing up with his maternal grandfather in the countryside, Kawabata read English and Japanese literature at...

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  • It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.

    Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...

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Författarporträtt av Kawabata, Yasunari

Kawabata, Yasunari
1899 - 1972

Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer born in Osaka. He came from an educated, wealthy family,...

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Portrait of Lion Feuchtwanger

Feuchtwanger, Lion
1884 - 1958

The German author of prose, playwright, translator and critic Lion Jacob Arje Feuchtwanger grew up in a wealthy Jewish...

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Portrait image of Hugo Claus

Claus, Hugo
1929 - 2008

Belgian author. His father worked at a printing office and his mother was a housewife. When a new baby was on its way, his...

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Författarporträtt av Jacobsen, Roy

Jacobsen, Roy
1954 -

Norwegian author born in Oslo where he grew up in a working-class suburb, but he spent his teenage years in North Norway....

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