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![Portrait image of Halldór Laxness](images/writer/995/995_20131107101537_Large.jpg)
Laxness, Halldór
1902 - 1998
Icelandic author born in Reykjavik as Halldór Guðjónsson. When he was three years old his parents, Guðjón Helgason and Sigr...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Shelley, Percy Bysshe](images/writer/1547/1547_20150327113110_Large.jpg)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
1792 - 1822
The English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in Sussex to a wealthy, aristocratic family. He went to Eton and Oxford, he...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Coleridge, Samuel Taylor](images/writer/336/336_20130712124343.jpg)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
1772 - 1834
The English poet and literary critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the son of a Devonshire clergyman. He attended Jesus...
Further reading![Portrait of Fred Vargas](images/writer/4484/609948014aed170163e7e84605fd226edbb46d429b0f8.jpg)
Vargas, Fred
1957 -
Fred Vargas is a pseudonym used by the French historian, archaeologist and crime writer Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau. "Vargas" w...
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