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Wilde, Oscar
1854 - 1900
Oscar Wilde was born in a physician's family in Dublin in 1854. His mother had literary interests. Wilde later attended...
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Maugham, W. Somerset
1874 - 1965
William Somerset Maugham was a British author born in Paris. His father was a lawyer at the British Embassy there. When...
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Wolkers, Jan
1925 - 2007
The Dutch author and artist Jan Wolkers was born in Oegstgeest near Leiden as the third of eleven children. His father...
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Edwardson, Åke
1953 -
Swedish author and journalist, born in Tranås and raised in Vrigstad and Sävsjö. Åke Edwardson studied history of lit...
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