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It is 125 years today since Yasunari Kawabata was born.
Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer born in Osaka. He came from an educated, wealthy family, but he lost his parents at an early age and his only sibling, a sister, died when he was nine years old. These childhood traumas came to inform his writing. After growing up with his maternal grandfather in the countryside, Kawabata read English and Japanese literature at...
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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
Sample of Authors
![Portrait of Robert Crais](images/writer/6416/6197c01c714a5fbbce3709861dffb6caacca6e8c56c1f.jpg)
Crais, Robert
1953 -
Robert Crais is an American author born in Independence, Louisiana, and brought up on the banks of the Mississippi River in...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Bergman, Hjalmar](images/writer/169/5c8caff9dfeeacc28b36a7cccc69d1414e5adb925176e.jpg)
Bergman, Hjalmar
1883 - 1931
Hjalmar Bergman was born in Örebro as the son of a bank manager, Claes Bergman, and his wife Fredrique, born Elgérus. As a l...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Maupassant, Guy de](images/writer/1149/5e05d8364621c8c22267a8cb8ca121f72c20dd818820a.jpg)
Maupassant, Guy de
1850 - 1893
Guy de Maupassant was born at the castle of Miromesnil, not far from Dieppe in Normandie. His family was of noble lineage...
Further reading![Portrait image of Leena Lehtolainen](images/writer/3099/3099.jpg)
Lehtolainen, Leena
1964 -
Leena Katriina Lehtolainen is a Finnish author. She was born in Vesanto and grew up in Outokumpu, Northern Karelia....
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