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It is 125 years today since Yasunari Kawabata was born.
Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer born in Osaka. He came from an educated, wealthy family, but he lost his parents at an early age and his only sibling, a sister, died when he was nine years old. These childhood traumas came to inform his writing. After growing up with his maternal grandfather in the countryside, Kawabata read English and Japanese literature at...
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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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Voors, Barbara
1967 -
Barbara Voors was born in Stockholm and grew up in Tehran, Iran, with her Swedish mother, who worked at the Swedish...
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Uhnak, Dorothy
1930 - 2006
Dorothy Uhnak was an American detective and creator of police procedural fiction. She was born Dorothy Goldstein in the...
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Peace, David
1967 -
David Peace is a British novelist. He was born and raised in Osset near Leeds in Yorkshire. He was educated in Wakefield,...
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Upfield, Arthur W.
1890 - 1964
Arthur W. Upfield is one of a small number of internationally famous Australian crime writers thanks to his novels about...
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