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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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Shelley, Mary
1797 - 1851
The author Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was born in England as the daughter of the pioneering feminist Mary...
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Walser, Martin
1927 - 2023
The German author Martin Walser was born in Wasserburg am Bodensee on Lake Constance where his father owned a restaurant....
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Trevor, William
1928 - 2016
William Trevor Cox was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, the Republic of Ireland, as the son of a Protestant bank...
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Thomson, June
1930 -
The shy and reserved teacher and author June Valerie Thomson is reluctant to give up information about her life, it is not...
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