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![Författarporträtt av Montaigne, Michel de](images/writer/5336/5dc3c7e94cf7e098bbeb3f1ee92ec15f7340076a25b00.jpg)
Montaigne, Michel de
1533 - 1592
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was born in a wealthy merchant family that had lived for generations in the ancestral castle...
Further reading![Portrait of Ismaïl Kadaré](images/writer/895/603e52a25c7ce11cae78791a92c9e071f0efa0233c16a.jpg)
Kadaré, Ismaïl
1936 -
Albanian author born in Gjirokastër in southern Albania near the border with Greece. His father was a postman. Ismail ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Edwardson, Åke](images/writer/441/wm_BR_441_20150320102505_Large.jpg)
Edwardson, Åke
1953 -
Swedish author and journalist, born in Tranås and raised in Vrigstad and Sävsjö. Åke Edwardson studied history of lit...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Aretino, Pietro](images/writer/6238/6238_20140326092726_Large.jpg)
Aretino, Pietro
1492 - 1556
Italian author born in Arezzo, Tuscany to a poor cobbler. He had little or no schooling, but he was clever and astute, and...
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