Sample of Authors
Heinesen, William
1900 - 1991
William Heinesen was born in Torshavn, the Faeroe Islands, where his father was a merchant and ship owner of peasant stock....
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Fredriksson, Marianne
1927 - 2007
Swedish author and journalist, born in Gothenburg but moved with her family to Roslagen as an adult. In 1962-74 Marianne...
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Lessing, Doris
1919 - 2013
The British author Doris May Lessing was born in Kermanshah in Persia (present-day Iran) and grew up in South Rhodesia...
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Savater, Fernando
1947 -
The Spanish philosopher and activist Fernando Savater is the author of novels, plays, essays and journalism. He was born in...
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