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  • It is 109 years today since Saul Bellow was born.

    American author, born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, but mainly raised in Chicago, where his family moved in 1924. Saul Bellow grew up as the youngest child in a Russian-Jewish family who had left St. Petersburg in 1913. His father was a businessman. Bellow got his education at Tuley High School and the University of Chicago before moving to Northwestern University, where he obtained a degree in...

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  • It is 88 years today since Brian Freemantle was born.

    Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...

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Portrait image of Anne Tyler

Tyler, Anne
1941 -

Anne Tyler is an American author who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up in North Carolina. Her father, Lloyd...

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Författarporträtt av Matthews, John

Matthews, John
1952 -

John Matthews is a British journalist and author. After having published two unremarkable novels in the 1980s he had an...

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Författarporträtt av Kihlgård, Peter

Kihlgård, Peter
1954 -

Swedish author and playwright. He was born in Örebro and grew up in Umeå and Sundsvall. His father Gösta "Stockis" Kihlgård w...

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Portrait of José Saramago

Saramago, José
1922 - 2010

The Portuguese author José (de Sousa) Saramago was born in the small village of Azinhaga in Ribatejo Province, Portugal. ...

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