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  • It is 113 years today since Max Frisch was born.

    The Swiss author Max Frisch was born in Zurich, Switzerland. His father was an architect. Frisch dreamed of becoming an author from an early age, and in the early 1930s he began to read German literature and linguistics at the University of Zurich. Although disenchanted with university, he became influenced by prominent teachers such as Walter Muschg.
    When his father suddenly died in 1932,...

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Författarporträtt av Rohmer, Sax

Rohmer, Sax
1883 - 1959

Pseudonym for the English author and journalist Arthur Henry Ward, who already as a teenager added Sarsfield as a last...

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Författarporträtt av Liffner, Eva-Marie

Liffner, Eva-Marie
1957 -

Eva-Marie Liffner is a Swedish author and journalist born in Gothenburg and raised in Frölunda in the 1950s, where she ...

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Doyle, Roddy
1958 -

Irish author and screenwriter who grew up in Kilbarrack, Dublin, Ireland. Doyle has a Bachelor of Arts from University...

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Författarporträtt av Allen, Grant

Allen, Grant
1848 - 1899

Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen was a British philosopher, natural scientist and journalist. His support for evolutionary...

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