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  • It is 113 years today since Max Frisch was born.

    The Swiss author Max Frisch was born in Zurich, Switzerland. His father was an architect. Frisch dreamed of becoming an author from an early age, and in the early 1930s he began to read German literature and linguistics at the University of Zurich. Although disenchanted with university, he became influenced by prominent teachers such as Walter Muschg.
    When his father suddenly died in 1932,...

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Författarporträtt av Fontane, Theodor

Fontane, Theodor
1819 - 1898

The German author Theodor Fontane (Henri Théodore Fontane) was born to a Huguenot family in the Brandenburg garrison town ...

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Crispin, Edmund
1921 - 1978

Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym for Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English pianist and organist, composer and author of...

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Författarporträtt av Sand, George

Sand, George
1804 - 1876

A pseudonym of Aurore Dudevant, a French author born in Paris as Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, but from the age of four...

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Författarporträtt av Dahl, Roald

Dahl, Roald
1916 - 1990

British author born in Llandaff, Glamorgan, Wales, to Norwegian parents. His father, who died when Roald Dahl was only...

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