Vian, Boris
1920 - 1959

French author born in the Paris suburb of Ville-d'Avray. Boris Vian went to school in Paris and trained as an engineer at...

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Mutis, Álvaro
1923 - 2013

Álvaro Mutis was born in Bogotà, Colombia. Like many other Latin American authors he comes from a multicultural family. His f...

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Freeling, Nicolas
1927 - 2003

Nicholas Freeling was born Nicolas Davidson in London. His parents were English, but his mother had Dutch roots and the...

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Mickiewicz, Adam
1798 - 1855

The Polish author Adam Mickiewicz grew up in the village of Zaosie near Novogrudok, then the Lithuanian part of the former...

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