White, Patrick
1912 - 1990

Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian author and Nobel Prize laureate born in London to a family of wealthy...

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Vonnegut, Kurt
1922 - 2007

American author, born in Indianapolis, where both his father and grandfather were working as architects. Further back, the...

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Silone, Ignazio
1900 - 1978

The pseudonym of Secondo Tranquilli, an Italian author and intellectual, born in Pescina dei Marsi. Silone came from a poor...

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Despentes, Virginie
1969 -

The French author Virginie Despentes was born in Nancy, northeast France. She was convinced from an early age that girls...

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