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It is 152 years today since Bertrand Russell was born.
The British philosopher and author Bertrand Arthur William Russel was born in Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Wales, to an aristocratic family that included the former Prime Minister Lord John Russell. His parents were liberal and advocated, among other things, the emancipation of women. Although his godfather was John Stuart Mill, the boy was brought up by his Presbyterian grandmother after he was...
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It is 80 years today since W.G. Sebald was born.
Winfried Georg (W.G.) Sebald was born near the end of the Second World War in the Bavarian mountain village of Wertach where his mother had moved to get away from the bombing of the town of Bamberg. His parents, Rosa and Georg, had three children. His father, an officer of the Wehrmacht who had participated in the invasion of Poland, was a prisoner of war until 1947, but mentioning the war was...
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Tolkien, J.R.R.
1892 - 1973
The English author, poet and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, then in the Orange Free State...
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Holt, Anne
1958 -
Anne Holt is a Norwegian crime writer born in Larvik. She read law at the University of Bergen, graduating in 1986. She...
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Muñoz Molina, Anto
1956 -
The Spanish author Antonio Muñoz Molina was born at Úbeda in Jaén, Andalucia where he attended the Santo Domingo Savio Je...
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Almqvist, Carl Jonas Love
1793 - 1866
Swedish author, born in Stockholm and raised at the estate of Antuna some distance to the north of the city. The father...
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