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It is 149 years today since Thomas Mann was born.
The German novelist and short story writer Thomas Mann was born in Lübeck. His father, who was a senator and wealthy merchant, died in 1891, leaving an inheritance which secured the future of the family. The family moved to Munich, where Thomas Mann would live for thirty years until 1933. After a short period at an insurance company, he studied in 1895-96 both at the university and at a ...
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It is 225 years today since Alexander Pushkin was born.
The Russian author Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born in Moscow to one of the oldest noble families in Russia with roots in the 12th century. They had lost their wealth by the time Pushkin was born, but on the other hand there was plenty of cultural capital. His father was well read and the owner of an extensive French library, which the son became acquainted with from an early age. This was...
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It is 96 years today since R.D. Wingfield was born.
His full name was Rodney David Wingfield, an English author and dramatist, born in Hackney in London. He was educated at Cooper’s Company School in London, but spent a long time in Somerset, as the school’s pupils were evacuated to Frome during the Second World War. He was exempted from National Service primarily on account of his poor eyesight. Instead, after the war he had various jobs, mainly a...
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It is 50 years today since Guillaume Musso was born.
Frenchman who has written a number of thrillers which have been translated into many languages, and who is said to be the French-language author who has sold the most books during the 2000s. He was born in a family that was interested in literature: his mother was a librarian, and his brother Valentin Musso (born 1977) has written several crime novels. When he was only ten years old, Guillaume...
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Coben, Harlan
1962 -
Harlan Coben is an American author who grew up in a Jewish family in Livingston, New Jersey. He graduated from Livingston...
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Johnson, Eyvind
1900 - 1976
Swedish author, born in Svartbjörnsbyn in the province of Norrbotten. When his father, who had been working with ...
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Paasilinna, Arto
1942 - 2018
Arto Paasilinna was born in Kittilä in the Finnish part of Lapland. His father died from pulmonary tuberculosis at the age ...
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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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