Tucholsky, Kurt
1890 - 1935

The German author Kurt Tucholsky was born in the Moabit district of Berlin to a wealthy Jewish banking family. Despite...

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Mo Yan
1955 -

Pseudonym for Guan Moye, a Chinese author born to poor farmers in Gaomi, northeast Shandong province. His father only went...

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Malamud, Bernard
1914 - 1986

Bernard Malamud was an American author born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family of Russian Jewish immigrants. The family...

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Fløgstad, Kjartan
1944 -

Norwegian author born in the industrial city of Sauda. He has worked at the smelting plant in Sauda and on a Norwegian...

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