Hamid, Mohsin
1971 -

Mohsin Hamid was born in Pakistan. His father was a first generation Pakistani born in 1947, the year of partition. Mohsin...

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Trosell, Aino
1949 -

Trosell is a Swedish writer, born in the town of Malung where she grew up in a blue-collar family. In 1967, Aino Trosell...

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Bauer, Belinda
1962 -

As a child, the British author Belinda Bauer spent ten years in South Africa during apartheid. Her father was a dentist...

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Dante Alighieri
1265 - 1321

The Italian poet Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, referred to as Dante, was born in Florence to an old, noble, but no...

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