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  • It is 113 years today since Max Frisch was born.

    The Swiss author Max Frisch was born in Zurich, Switzerland. His father was an architect. Frisch dreamed of becoming an author from an early age, and in the early 1930s he began to read German literature and linguistics at the University of Zurich. Although disenchanted with university, he became influenced by prominent teachers such as Walter Muschg.
    When his father suddenly died in 1932,...

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Författarporträtt av Treichel, Hans-Ulrich

Treichel, Hans-Ulrich
1952 -

The German author and scholar Hans-Ulrich Treichel was born in the town of Versmold, Westphalia, where his parents settled...

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Författarporträtt av Chekhov, Anton

Chekhov, Anton
1860 - 1904

By the time the Russian author Anton Pavlovich Chekhov died from consumption only 44 years old, he had written some 600...

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Författarporträtt av Jansson, Tove

Jansson, Tove
1914 - 2001

Finland-Swedish author and visual artist. Tove Jansson was born and grew up in an artist home in Helsinki. Her home...

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Portrait of Pia Tafdrup

Tafdrup, Pia
1952 -

The Danish author Pia Tafdrup was born in Copenhagen, grew up in the countryside on North Jutland and later attended the...

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