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It is 133 years today since Pär Lagerkvist was born.
Swedish author, born in Växjö as the youngest of seven siblings. His father was a railway station supervisor, and Pär Lagerkvist grew up in an apartment above the railway station restaurant. There was a strong cohesion within his family. The family was influenced by the rural environment from which it originated, and a pious and conservative Christian faith prevailed in the home. There were only t...
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Milosz, Czeslaw
1911 - 2004
Polish author and Nobel Prize laureate born and raised in the village of Šeteniai, Lithuania, the Russian Empire. His ...
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Katzenbach, John
1950 -
American author and journalist, son of the famous and politically very active lawyer Nicholas Katzenbach, later the US...
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Kunze, Reiner
1933 -
The German poet and essayist Reiner Kunze was born in Oelsnitz (Erzegebirge), in the GDR. His father was a miner and his...
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Thomas, Leslie
1931 - 2014
The Welsh author Leslie Thomas was born in Newport, South Wales. He is one of the most popular British late 20th century...
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