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It is 165 years today since Arthur Conan Doyle was born.
Scottish author with Irish ancestry, born in Edinburgh. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, worked as a civil servant, but was also a painter and illustrator. He was sickly, become seriously alcoholic over the years and was admitted into psychiatric care in 1885. He died in 1893. It was Arthur’s mother, Mary, born Foley, who instead held the family together, struggling to give her son a good e...
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It is 75 years today since Aino Trosell was born.
Trosell is a Swedish writer, born in the town of Malung where she grew up in a blue-collar family. In 1967, Aino Trosell moved to Gothenburg where she combined her high school studies with work at a psychiatric institution and a tobacco company. After graduating with a Bachelor of Social Services from the Social Work College in 1974, she took on employment as a social worker, but found the job...
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Canning, Victor
1911 - 1986
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the...
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Jacob, Max
1876 - 1944
French author and artist born in Quimper, then a typical French provincial town in Finistère, Brittany. During his ...
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Kertész, Imre
1929 - 2016
Imre Kertész was a Hungarian author born in Budapest to a secular Jewish family. He was widely translated and one of ...
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Taylor, Andrew
1951 -
The British author Andrew John Robert Taylor was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire and grew up in East Anglia. He attended...
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