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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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Kaminsky, Stuart M.
1934 - 2009
The productive American Stuart M. (Melvin) Kaminsky had a chair in Film Studies and wrote a large number of books: studies...
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Thompson, Arthur Leonard Bell
1917 - 1975
Francis Clifford is the pseudonym of Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson, a major British author of crime fiction and spy...
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Broch, Hermann
1886 - 1951
Hermann Broch was one of the most important one among those 20th century authors whose writings were also influenced by...
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Propper, Milton M.
1906 - 1962
American crime writer and lawyer, born into a middle-class family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he also lived for...
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