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It is 75 years today since Ken Follett was born.
British author and journalist born in Cardiff, Wales. Kenneth "Ken" Follett’s parents were active members of the church of the Plymouth Brethren, and as a child he was not allowed to watch television. Instead he read profusely; his first favourite author was Shakespeare. Follett graduated from University College London in 1970 and began to write about rock music for the Cardiff-based South Wales E...
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It is 87 years today since Hélène Cixous was born.
The French philosopher, scholar and author Hélène Cixous is a leading post-structuralist feminist scholar alongside Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva. Cixous was born in 1937 to a Jewish family in Oran, Algeria. Her father was a Sephardic Jew from a Moroccan background, his mother was a German refugee born in Osnabrück. Cixous came from a multi-lingual family that spoke German, French, Spanish, Ar...
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Lindstein, Mariette
1958 -
Swedish author and lecturer, born as Mariette Westam in Halmstad, where she also grew up. As a child, she wrote ghost...
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Kelly, Jim
1957 -
English author and journalist, born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, approximately 20 km north of London. His father, Brian B....
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Richardson, Samuel
1689 - 1761
Samuel Richardson was born in Derbyshire as the son of a carpenter. The family could not afford to send him to school, so...
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Vila-Matas, Enrique
1948 -
Spanish author of essays, short stories and novels born in Barcelona, Catalonia. He studied law and journalism at...
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