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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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Palmen, Connie
1955 -
Dutch author born to a Catholic family in Sint Odiliënberg, the Netherlands. In 1978, she went to Amsterdam to study ...
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Jensen, Carsten
1952 -
Carsten Jensen is a Danish journalist, author and culture writer. He was born in Marstal on Ærø island, the same town and i...
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Chekhov, Anton
1860 - 1904
By the time the Russian author Anton Pavlovich Chekhov died from consumption only 44 years old, he had written some 600...
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Seeck, Max
1985 -
Max Seeck is a Finnish novelist and film producer. He lives in Esbo with his wife and two children. Seeck holds an MBA...
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