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Deighton, Len
1929 -
The British author Len Deighton was born as Leonard Cyril Deighton in London. His father was a chauffeur; his mother worked...
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Grass, Günter
1927 - 2015
Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German author born in Danzig (present-day Gdansk in Poland) to German-Polish parents. His father ...
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Ionesco, Eugène
1909 - 1994
The playwright and author Eugène Ionesco was born in Romania to a Romanian father and a French mother. The family moved to ...
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Levy, Deborah
1959 -
The British playwright and novelist Deborah Levy was born in South Africa. Her father, a Jewish historian who was a friend...
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