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It is 68 years today since Mircea Cărtărescu was born.
The Romanian prosaist and poet Mircea Cărtărescu was born and raised in Bucharest together with his sister. Both his mother, Maria (née Badislav) and his father, the economist and journalist Konstantin Cărtărescu, were committed communists.
Cărtărescu graduated from college in 1975 and went on to study literature and languages at university, graduating in 1980. His PhD thesis in literature was on... -
It is 145 years today since Freeman Wills Crofts was born.
Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the son of a British army surgeon who died when Croft was still young. Because his mother then married an archdeacon, Croft was brought up in a deeply religious home. He studied engineering, and at the age of seventeen he became an apprentice at the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway where he stayed until 1929 when he left for health...
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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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Appelfeld, Aharon
1932 - 2018
The Jewish author Aharon Appelfeld is widely known in Israel and his books have been translated into many languages. He was...
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Seferis, Giorgos
1900 - 1971
The first Nobel Prize laureate to come out of Greece was born Georgios Seferiades in Urla near Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey),...
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Wahlöö, Per
1926 - 1975
Per Fredrik Wahlöö was a Swedish author born in Kungsbacka. His father was a newspaper editor in Lund. Per Wahlöö passed his...
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