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It is 109 years today since Saul Bellow was born.
American author, born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, but mainly raised in Chicago, where his family moved in 1924. Saul Bellow grew up as the youngest child in a Russian-Jewish family who had left St. Petersburg in 1913. His father was a businessman. Bellow got his education at Tuley High School and the University of Chicago before moving to Northwestern University, where he obtained a degree in...
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It is 88 years today since Brian Freemantle was born.
Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...
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Kárason, Einar
1955 -
The Icelandic author Einar Kárason was born in Reykjavik. While studying literature at university he had various jobs at ...
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Erpenbeck, Jenny
1967 -
The German author and theatre director Jenny Erpenbeck grew up in central East Berlin where she still lives. Erpenbeck's...
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Marías, Javier
1951 - 2022
Spanish author, translator and publisher born in Madrid. His mother was a teacher; his father, Julián Marías, was a r...
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Turow, Scott
1949 -
Scott Frederick Turow is an American author born in Chicago, Illinois, where his father was working as a physicist. Both...
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