Quasimodo, Salvatore
1901 - 1968

Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italian poet born in Modica, near Syracuse on Sicily. He was the second of four children. His...

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Wolf, Christa
1929 - 2011

The German author Christa Wolf was born as Christa Ihlenfeld in Landsberg ab der Warthe (present-day Gorzów Wielkopolski in ...

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Ghosh, Amitav
1956 -

Amitav Ghosh is among the most prominent of a generation of Anglo-Indian writers that came to the fore in the 1980s. He was...

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Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
1977 -

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in the city of Enugu, southeast Nigeria, to a Christian Igbo family. It was the Igbo that...

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