Alexievich, Svetlana
1948 -

Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ukraine three years after the Second World War. She grew up in a village in Belorussia...

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Hanshew, T.W.
1857 - 1914

An American author, journalist and actor, born in Brooklyn, New York. Not much is known about his private life and early...

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Harvey, John
1938 -

The British author, editor and teacher John Barton Harvey grew up in London where he attended St. Aloysius College. He...

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Cărtărescu, Mircea
1956 -

The Romanian prosaist and poet Mircea Cărtărescu was born and raised in Bucharest together with his sister. Both his m...

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