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![Portrait image of Jules Verne](images/writer/1791/6419cbf7578a9ea7b82837014888bc583021b7f0a5697.jpg)
Verne, Jules
1828 - 1905
French author, born in Nantes. To a large extent, his childhood appears to have been characterized by loneliness; he was...
Further reading![Portrait image of Kirsten Thorup](images/writer/1723/635031f40f7a1c73b09ae581b135ebde5a8cda289b9ce.jpg)
Thorup, Kirsten
1942 -
Kirsten Thorup is a Danish author born as Kirsten Christensen at Gelsted on Funen island. Her father, Svend Christensen,...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Deforges, Régine](images/writer/387/387_20151123122558.jpg)
Deforges, Régine
1935 - 2014
The French author, publisher, director and playwright Régine Deforges, born in Montmorillon, Poitou, was famous for her ...
Further reading![Portrait image of Thomas Keneally](images/writer/919/61670c460617e769e29649c87ff89273f414711958b2b.jpg)
Keneally, Thomas
1935 -
The novelist and non-fiction writer Thomas ‘Tom’ Keneally descends from a family of Irish prisoners that were deported to Aus...
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