Mistral, Gabriela
1889 - 1957

The Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral was born in Vicuña as Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga. She came from a...

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Raymond, Derek
1931 - 1994

English author, who during a Bohemian and wandering life occupied himself with a number of different jobs and activities, a...

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Tucholsky, Kurt
1890 - 1935

The German author Kurt Tucholsky was born in the Moabit district of Berlin to a wealthy Jewish banking family. Despite...

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Beckett, Simon
1960 -

English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at h...

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