Bolaño, Roberto
1953 - 2003

The author and poet Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago de Chile, but for most of his life he resided abroad, in Mexico, El ...

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Brecht, Bertolt
1898 - 1956

German poet, playwright and essayist born in Augsburg where his father was the managing director of a paper mill. Brecht...

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Perec, Georges
1936 - 1982

George Perec's Jewish parents emigrated from Poland to France in the 1920s. His father served in the war and was killed in...

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Pynchon, Thomas
1937 -

One of America's most celebrated authors, Thomas Pynchon, grew up in Glen Cove on Long Island together with his brother...

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