Westö, Kjell
1961 -

Kjell Westö is a Finland-Swedish author and journalist who writes in Swedish. He grew up in an upper middleclass family ...

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Fallada, Hans
1893 - 1947

The German author Hans Fallada was born as Rudof Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen in Greifswald, German Empire. He was the second...

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Eco, Umberto
1932 - 2016

Umberto Eco was an Italian author, literary scholar, historian and philosopher born in Alessandria in Piedmont. His surname...

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Hosseini, Khaled
1965 -

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, as the oldest of five children. His mother was a teacher of history and...

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