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![Författarporträtt av Louÿs, Pierre](images/writer/3464/3464_20160421091901.jpg)
Louÿs, Pierre
1870 - 1925
Pierre Félix Louÿs was a French poet and novelist. He was born to a wealthy family in Ghent, Belgium, in somewhat unclear c...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Walcott, Derek](images/writer/1815/1815_20131208082556_Large.jpg)
Walcott, Derek
1930 - 2017
Derek Walcott was born in Castries on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. His father was a civil servant who painted and...
Further reading![Portrait of Doris Lessing](images/writer/1015/662a5b8d5cb22040927ebeb21683b56255896df7276a8.jpg)
Lessing, Doris
1919 - 2013
The British author Doris May Lessing was born in Kermanshah in Persia (present-day Iran) and grew up in South Rhodesia...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Temple, Peter](images/writer/4719/wm_BR_4719_20141103113148_Large.jpg)
Temple, Peter
1946 - 2018
Peter Temple was born in South Africa, but left the country in 1980, deeply sickened by the white regime’s apartheid p...
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