O'Donnell, Peter
1920 - 2010

Peter O’Donnell was a British author born in Lewisham, London, to an Irish family. His father was a well-known crime r...

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Turgenev, Ivan
1818 - 1883

The Russian author and nobleman Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev grew up on an estate in Oryol, central Russia. His father was a...

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Watson, Colin
1920 - 1983

Some refer to the British journalist Colin Watson's Flaxborough (population 15,000) stories as among the funniest in...

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Manea, Norman
1936 -

Romanian author of Jewish descent born in Suceava, Bukovina, in northern Romania. He and his family were brought to a...

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