Carrère, Emmanuel
1957 -

The French author Emmanuel Carrère was born to a middle-class family in Paris's 16th arrondissement. He is the son of Louis ...

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Akunin, Boris
1956 -

Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was...

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Shelley, Mary
1797 - 1851

The author Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was born in England as the daughter of the pioneering feminist Mary...

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Enzensberger, Hans Magnus
1929 - 2022

The German author and poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger was the oldest of four brothers born to middle-class parents in the...

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