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It is 133 years today since Pär Lagerkvist was born.
Swedish author, born in Växjö as the youngest of seven siblings. His father was a railway station supervisor, and Pär Lagerkvist grew up in an apartment above the railway station restaurant. There was a strong cohesion within his family. The family was influenced by the rural environment from which it originated, and a pious and conservative Christian faith prevailed in the home. There were only t...
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Zola, Émile
1840 - 1902
French author, born in Paris and raised in Aix-en-Provence. His father, who was Italian and a successful site engineer,...
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Griffiths, Elly
1963 -
The English author Domenica Maxted – known as a crime writer under the pseudonym Elly Griffiths – was born in London as Dom...
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Parsons, Julie
1951 -
Writer of detective stories Julie Parsons was born and grew up in New Zealand, to which her Irish parents had emigrated in...
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Dickinson, Emily
1830 - 1886
The American poet Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her father was a successful lawyer. She studied art...
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