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It is 131 years today since Dorothy L. Sayers was born.
English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and his wife Helen Leigh Sayers. When Dorothy L. (Leigh) Sayers was four years old, the family moved to Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire where the father was appointed pastor. The parents had cultural and linguistic interests, and regularly travelled with their daughter to...
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It is 159 years today since William Butler Yeats was born.
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin to an Anglo-Irish family, but he spent most of his life in England and France. His father was a successful portrait painter, and the young Yeats intended to follow in his footsteps. He attended the School of Art in Dublin, but after three years he abandoned art for literature.
He published his first poetry collection, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other...
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Lundkvist, Artur
1906 - 1991
Swedish author, poet, and critic, and a member of the Swedish academy, born and raised in Oderljunga in the county of...
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Smith, Zadie
1975 -
Zadie Smith, born Sadie Adeline Smith, grew up in Kilburn and Willesden Green, north-west London, with her two younger...
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García Márquez, Gabriel
1927 - 2014
Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, a small town in the tropical parts of northern Colombia. Here he mainly grew u...
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Fontane, Theodor
1819 - 1898
The German author Theodor Fontane (Henri Théodore Fontane) was born to a Huguenot family in the Brandenburg garrison town ...
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