Millás, Juan José
1946 -

Spanish author and journalist born in Valencia as the fourth of nine siblings. The family moved to the outskirts of Madrid...

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Pasternak, Boris
1890 - 1960

The Russian poet and prose writer Boris Pasternak was born in Moscow, in an art-oriented family. His mother was a concert...

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Atwood, Margaret
1939 -

Canadian author, born in Ottawa and grew up in Ontario, Quebec and Toronto. Her parents, Carl Edmund Atwood and Margaret...

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Kjærstad, Jan
1953 -

Norwegian author, born and grew up in a middle-class environment in Grorud, an Oslo suburb. His father, Leif Asbjørn ...

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