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It is 131 years today since Dorothy L. Sayers was born.
English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and his wife Helen Leigh Sayers. When Dorothy L. (Leigh) Sayers was four years old, the family moved to Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire where the father was appointed pastor. The parents had cultural and linguistic interests, and regularly travelled with their daughter to...
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It is 159 years today since William Butler Yeats was born.
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin to an Anglo-Irish family, but he spent most of his life in England and France. His father was a successful portrait painter, and the young Yeats intended to follow in his footsteps. He attended the School of Art in Dublin, but after three years he abandoned art for literature.
He published his first poetry collection, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other...
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Chabon, Michael
1963 -
Jewish-American author born in Washington D.C. His father, Robert Chabon, was a paediatrician and a lawyer. His mother,...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Montaigne, Michel de](images/writer/5336/5dc3c7e94cf7e098bbeb3f1ee92ec15f7340076a25b00.jpg)
Montaigne, Michel de
1533 - 1592
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was born in a wealthy merchant family that had lived for generations in the ancestral castle...
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Rushdie, Salman
1947 -
Salman Rushdie is the undisputed pioneer and mentor for the Indian-English literary generation which made its breakthrough...
Further reading![Portrait of Wislawa Szymborska](images/writer/1683/603ce1f507d9ca643bd248843ec58bb4cac2346b4cb02.jpg)
Szymborska, Wislawa
1923 - 2012
The poet, essayist and translator Maria Wislawa Anna Szymborska was born in Prowent, near Bnin, now part of Kórnik, Poland. ...
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