The British author C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis was born in Belfast. His father was a solicitor. Lewis read philosophy, literature and English at Oxford until 1917, when he served in WWI and was wounded by a British shell near Lilliers in France in April 1918. He taught English literature at Magdalen College, Oxford, between 1925 and 1954 when he accepted the chair of Mediaeval and Renaissance...

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Belgian author and filmer, born in Brussels. He spent a large part of his youth in Paris, where he eventually also came to study political science and contemporary history. In 1982-84 he lived in Algeria, teaching French. It was also here that he began writing what would become his debut novel, The Bathroom (1985, La salle de bain). Jean-Philippe Toussaint has periodically also lived on Corsica,...

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