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It is 79 years today since Mats Wahl was born.
Mats Wahl was born in Malmö and grew up with his grandparents in Slite on the island of Gotland from the age of two after his parents separated. He moved to his mother and her new husband in Stockholm in 1957.
He read literature, social anthropology and pedagogics at Stockholm University and then spent twenty years as a teacher at various youth facilities. He launched his writing career by ... -
It is 73 years today since Petra Hammesfahr was born.
Petra Hammesfahr is an award-winning, bestselling German author of crime fiction. All her principal characters are women. She was born in Titz, Nordrhein-Westfalen, where she still lives, and grew up in nearby Kirchherten and Niederembt. She also lived in Kirch-Grottenherten and other places before she settled in Kerpen near Cologne in 1977. An avid reader as child, she joined a retail training...
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It is 51 years today since Tana French was born.
Crime writer and actress Tana French was born in Burlington, Vermont, USA. Her father was an economist and worked all around the world. The family also lived in Italy, Malawi and Ireland. From 17 years of age, French has lived in Dublin. She now has both American and Irish citizenship. When she was a child, Tana thought about becoming an archaeologist. She has subsequently taken part in several...
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Despentes, Virginie
1969 -
The French author Virginie Despentes was born in Nancy, northeast France. She was convinced from an early age that girls...
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Toer, Pramoedya Ananta
1925 - 2006
Pramoedya Ananta Toer is Indonesia's best-known author outside Indonesia. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize and he...
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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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Schlink, Bernhard
1944 -
The German lawyer and author Bernhard Schlink was born in Grossdornberg (now part of the city of Bielefeld) and grew up in...
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