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  • It is 97 years today since Robert Ludlum was born.

    The American thriller writer, theatre producer and actor Robert Ludlum were born in New York, but his family moved to New Jersey when he was just a baby and it was there he grew up. His father was a business man and the young son received an education at private schools across Connecticut: Rectory School in Pomfret, Kent School in Kent, Chesire Academy in Chesire and Wesleyan University in...

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Portrait image of Nina Bouraoui

Bouraoui, Nina
1967 -

The French novelist and songwriter Nina Yasmina Bouraoui was born in Rennes as the child of an Algerian father, an...

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Författarporträtt av Forster, E.M.

Forster, E.M.
1879 - 1970

The British author Edward Morgan Forster was born in London. His father was an architect. Forster attended King’s College, C...

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Författarporträtt av Abulhawa, Susan

Abulhawa, Susan
1970 -

The Palestinian author Susan Abulhawa was born in a refugee camp in Kuwait. As a result of the Six-Day War in 1967, when...

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Författarporträtt av Houellebecq, Michel

Houellebecq, Michel
1956 -

French author, born as Michel Thomas on the colonial island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. His parents fairly soon lost ...

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