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It is 109 years today since Saul Bellow was born.
American author, born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, but mainly raised in Chicago, where his family moved in 1924. Saul Bellow grew up as the youngest child in a Russian-Jewish family who had left St. Petersburg in 1913. His father was a businessman. Bellow got his education at Tuley High School and the University of Chicago before moving to Northwestern University, where he obtained a degree in...
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It is 88 years today since Brian Freemantle was born.
Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...
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![Författarporträtt av Heine, Heinrich](images/writer/730/5c4998ef46d3c8d29e9651ef21d525c2c223ff49a7098.jpg)
Heine, Heinrich
1797 - 1856
German poet and publicist born as Harry Heine in Düsseldorf, Prussia. His father was a Jewish textile merchant from a ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Adonis](images/writer/2598/wm_BR_2598_20161003100336_Large.jpg)
Adonis
1930 -
Adonis, or Adunis, is the alias of the Syrian-Lebanese poet Ali Ahmad Said. Said was born in a poor farming community in...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Myrdal, Jan](images/writer/1221/wm_BR_1221_20161019120727_Large.jpg)
Myrdal, Jan
1927 - 2020
Swedish author, born in Stockholm to Gunnar and Alva Myrdal, both social democratic cabinet ministers, Nobel Prize winners...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Magnan, Pierre](images/writer/1106/1106_20120506101208.jpg)
Magnan, Pierre
1922 - 2012
The French author Pierre Magnan grew up in Manosque at the centre of the department Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, an isolated,...
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