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It is 68 years today since Mircea Cărtărescu was born.
The Romanian prosaist and poet Mircea Cărtărescu was born and raised in Bucharest together with his sister. Both his mother, Maria (née Badislav) and his father, the economist and journalist Konstantin Cărtărescu, were committed communists.
Cărtărescu graduated from college in 1975 and went on to study literature and languages at university, graduating in 1980. His PhD thesis in literature was on... -
It is 145 years today since Freeman Wills Crofts was born.
Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the son of a British army surgeon who died when Croft was still young. Because his mother then married an archdeacon, Croft was brought up in a deeply religious home. He studied engineering, and at the age of seventeen he became an apprentice at the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway where he stayed until 1929 when he left for health...
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Steinbeck, John
1902 - 1968
American author and Nobel Prize winner born in Salinas in California. His mother was a teacher and his father worked in the...
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Radcliffe, Ann
1764 - 1823
The English author Ann Radcliffe was born in London as the daughter of William and Ann Ward. In 1772, the family moved to...
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Verne, Jules
1828 - 1905
French author, born in Nantes. To a large extent, his childhood appears to have been characterized by loneliness; he was...
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Gordimer, Nadine
1923 - 2014
South-African novelist born in Springs, now in the province of Gauteng, (part of what was formerly the Transvaal), not far...
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