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Hoem, Edvard
1949 -
The Norwegian writer Edvard Hoem was born in Fræna, Romsdal, but he grew up on a small farm on the west coast of Norway. ...
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Malmsten, Bodil
1944 - 2016
Bodil Malmsten was born in the small village of Bjärme in Jämtland. As a teenager, she moved to Stockholm, where she would l...
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Capote, Truman
1924 - 1984
Truman Capote was born in New Orleans as Truman Streckfus Persons. His father, Arch Persons, was a young chancer who later...
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Gide, André
1869 - 1951
The French novelist, poet and playwright was born into a wealthy, strictly protestant bourgeois Paris family. His father, a...
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