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![Portrait of Fred Vargas](images/writer/4484/609948014aed170163e7e84605fd226edbb46d429b0f8.jpg)
Vargas, Fred
1957 -
Fred Vargas is a pseudonym used by the French historian, archaeologist and crime writer Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau. "Vargas" w...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Hollinghurst, Alan](images/writer/3912/3912_20120416121341_Large.jpg)
Hollinghurst, Alan
1954 -
Alan James Hollinghurst is a British author who was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, and grew up in Faringdon, Berkshire,...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Hardy, Thomas](images/writer/703/703_20121128205015.jpg)
Hardy, Thomas
1840 - 1928
The English author Thomas Hardy was born in Stinsford near Dorchester in Dorset, the son of a stonemason and local builder....
Further reading![Portrait image of Stendhal](images/writer/1628/613c8884b195aa7377857f47e7aa128b571a75cf09941.jpg)
Stendhal
1783 - 1842
French author born in Grenoble as Marie-Henri Beyle. His father was a lawyer. Beyle went to Paris as a young man where he...
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