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  • It is 113 years today since Max Frisch was born.

    The Swiss author Max Frisch was born in Zurich, Switzerland. His father was an architect. Frisch dreamed of becoming an author from an early age, and in the early 1930s he began to read German literature and linguistics at the University of Zurich. Although disenchanted with university, he became influenced by prominent teachers such as Walter Muschg.
    When his father suddenly died in 1932,...

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Författarporträtt av Dos Passos, John

Dos Passos, John
1896 - 1970

American author born in Chicago as John Roderigo Dos Passos to a wealthy lawyer of Portuguese descent. As a child, Dos...

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Gilbert, Michael
1912 - 2006

Michael Francis Gilbert was a British author of mystery stories and thrillers. He was born in Billinghay, Lincolnshire, and...

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Författarporträtt av Rhea, Nicholas

Rhea, Nicholas
1936 - 2017

Nicholas Rhea is a pseudonym for Peter Norman Walker, a British author and former police officer who has written over a...

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Musso, Guillaume
1974 -

Frenchman who has written a number of thrillers which have been translated into many languages, and who is said to be the...

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