Brontë, Emily
1818 - 1848

Emily Brontë was younger than Charlotte and older than Anne Brontë. The sisters were brought up together with their brother B...

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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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Winspear, Jacqueline
1955 -

The British author Jaqueline Winspear was born in Cranbrook, Kent, England. In her twenties, she worked at a London flee...

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Liksom, Rosa
1958 -

The Finnish author Rosa Liksom was born as Anni Ylävaara in Övertornå, Lapponia, in the far north of Sweden where people on b...

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