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It is 133 years today since Pär Lagerkvist was born.
Swedish author, born in Växjö as the youngest of seven siblings. His father was a railway station supervisor, and Pär Lagerkvist grew up in an apartment above the railway station restaurant. There was a strong cohesion within his family. The family was influenced by the rural environment from which it originated, and a pious and conservative Christian faith prevailed in the home. There were only t...
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Orwell, George
1903 - 1950
Pseudonym for Eric Blair, English author, critic and journalist, born in Motihari, in British India, where his British...
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856 - 1950
Irish author and Nobel Prize laureate born in Dublin to a middle-class family. His father was an alcoholic and his mother...
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Pasternak, Boris
1890 - 1960
The Russian poet and prose writer Boris Pasternak was born in Moscow, in an art-oriented family. His mother was a concert...
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Stendhal
1783 - 1842
French author born in Grenoble as Marie-Henri Beyle. His father was a lawyer. Beyle went to Paris as a young man where he...
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