Mickiewicz, Adam
1798 - 1855

The Polish author Adam Mickiewicz grew up in the village of Zaosie near Novogrudok, then the Lithuanian part of the former...

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Pepetela
1941 -

His full name is Artur Carlos Mauricio Pestana dos Santos, an Angolan author, born in the coastal town of Benguela. He took...

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Grimsrud, Beate
1963 - 2020

The Norwegian novelist, playwright and filmmaker Beate Grimsrud was born in Bærum, a suburb of Oslo, where she grew up with ...

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Pindar
c. 518 BCE - c. 438 BCE

Little is known about the Greek poet Pindar (Greek: Pindaros). He was probably born in the village of Cynoscephalae near...

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