Kadaré, Ismaïl
1936 -

Albanian author born in Gjirokastër in southern Albania near the border with Greece. His father was a postman. Ismail ...

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Chatterton, Thomas
1752 - 1770

British poet and satirist born in Bristol where he grew up in the shadow of the city's magnificent 15th century cathedral,...

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Lidman, Sara
1923 - 2004

Swedish author, born in Missenträsk in Västerbotten, where she grew up in a freeholder environment characterized by C...

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Cornwell, Patricia D.
1956 -

The American crime writer Patricia Cornwell was born in Miami, Florida, as Patricia Carroll Daniels. After her parents’ d...

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