Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
1918 - 2008

Russian author, born in Kislovodsk in the Caucasus and raised in Rostov. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn studied mathematics and...

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Kunze, Reiner
1933 -

The German poet and essayist Reiner Kunze was born in Oelsnitz (Erzegebirge), in the GDR. His father was a miner and his...

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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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Woolf, Virginia
1882 - 1941

The English author Virginia Woolf, born Stephen, grew up in an educated higher middle-class family in Hyde Park in London....

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