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Weiss, Peter
1916 - 1982
Peter Weiss was a German author and visual artist born in Nowawes near Berlin to a family of Hungarian-German origin. His...
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Fo, Dario
1926 - 2016
Italian playwright and actor, born in Sangiano in northern Italy. The father worked as a station master while the mother...
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Laxness, Halldór
1902 - 1998
Icelandic author born in Reykjavik as Halldór Guðjónsson. When he was three years old his parents, Guðjón Helgason and Sigr...
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Bouraoui, Nina
1967 -
The French novelist and songwriter Nina Yasmina Bouraoui was born in Rennes as the child of an Algerian father, an...
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