Stendhal
1783 - 1842

French author born in Grenoble as Marie-Henri Beyle. His father was a lawyer. Beyle went to Paris as a young man where he...

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Waugh, Evelyn
1903 - 1966

Evelyn Arthur Saint John Waugh was born in London. His father was a publisher and his older brother Alec a novelist and...

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Engberg, Katrine
1975 -

Katrine Engberg was born in Copenhagen where she also grew up in a cultural academic family. She trained to be a dancer and...

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Rifbjerg, Klaus
1931 - 2015

Danish author born to a middle-class family in Copenhagen. Both parents were teachers who read newspapers across the...

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