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It is 89 years today since André Brink was born.
André Brink was a South-African author born in Vrede, the Orange Free State of South Africa. His father was a magistrate and a deeply religious man; his mother was a teacher. André Brink moved to Lydenburg in the north where he left college with top grades in 1952. He went on to read languages at the University of Potchefstroom in the province of Transvaal, then, as well as now, a base for A...
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It is 72 years today since Pia Tafdrup was born.
The Danish author Pia Tafdrup was born in Copenhagen, grew up in the countryside on North Jutland and later attended the University of Copenhagen. Pia Tafdrup's books have been translated to some thirty languages. In 1999, the poetry collection Queen's Gate was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize, and in 2006 Tafdrup received the Swedish Academy Nordic prize for life achievement. Pia...
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It is 69 years today since Tom Kristensen was born.
Tom Kristensen is a Norwegian economist, engineer and author born in Tjøme, Vestfold county. He has won fame as a writer of financial thrillers. Kristensen was educated at Kongsberg Engineering College and at the Bergen School of Economics, graduating in 1981. He later worked for Statens Teknologiske Institutt in Kristiansand until he moved to Oslo.
He first worked as a financial adviser at an ...
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Kelly, Jim
1957 -
English author and journalist, born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, approximately 20 km north of London. His father, Brian B....
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Harris, Frank
1856 - 1931
The editor, journalist and publisher Frank Harris was born in Ireland. He was a notorious womanizer who became an American...
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Herbert, James
1943 - 2013
James Herbert from England was one of the best-selling and most praised authors of horror fiction in the late 20th century....
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Treat, Lawrence
1903 - 1998
Lawrence Treat was an American lawyer and author who started a trend in police procedural crime fiction that was later...
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