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It is 89 years today since André Brink was born.
André Brink was a South-African author born in Vrede, the Orange Free State of South Africa. His father was a magistrate and a deeply religious man; his mother was a teacher. André Brink moved to Lydenburg in the north where he left college with top grades in 1952. He went on to read languages at the University of Potchefstroom in the province of Transvaal, then, as well as now, a base for A...
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It is 72 years today since Pia Tafdrup was born.
The Danish author Pia Tafdrup was born in Copenhagen, grew up in the countryside on North Jutland and later attended the University of Copenhagen. Pia Tafdrup's books have been translated to some thirty languages. In 1999, the poetry collection Queen's Gate was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize, and in 2006 Tafdrup received the Swedish Academy Nordic prize for life achievement. Pia...
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It is 69 years today since Tom Kristensen was born.
Tom Kristensen is a Norwegian economist, engineer and author born in Tjøme, Vestfold county. He has won fame as a writer of financial thrillers. Kristensen was educated at Kongsberg Engineering College and at the Bergen School of Economics, graduating in 1981. He later worked for Statens Teknologiske Institutt in Kristiansand until he moved to Oslo.
He first worked as a financial adviser at an ...
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Clarke, Arthur C.
1917 - 2008
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was a British science writer and author of science fiction books born in Minehead, Somerset....
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Taylor, Andrew
1951 -
The British author Andrew John Robert Taylor was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire and grew up in East Anglia. He attended...
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Waters, Sarah
1966 -
Sarah Waters is a British author, born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales. She has described growing up with her sister as a...
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Hill, Susan
1942 -
Susan Hill is a British author. In 1961, she published the first of the over 50 works she has produced over her...
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