Bellow, Saul
1915 - 2005

American author, born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, but mainly raised in Chicago, where his family moved in 1924. Saul Bellow...

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Akunin, Boris
1956 -

Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was...

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Diski, Jenny
1947 - 2016

The British author Jenny Diski was born in London as Jenny Simmonds. She had a traumatic childhood with a father who...

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Mattson, Ellen
1962 -

Ellen Mattson was born in Uddevalla in the county of Bohuslän, western Sweden, where she grew up in the countryside south ...

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