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R.K. Narayan
R.K. (Rasipuram Krishnaswamy) Narayan was one of India's greatest and most beloved authors, and his many stories about life in the city of Malgudi are constantly reprinted for new generations of readers. He was also one of the first Indian writers writing in English who established a reputation in Europe. Narayan has been called the "Chekhov of India", and for Graham Greene, who helped him find a British publisher, he was "the novelist I most admire in the English language."
Narayan was born...
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Claude Simon
Claude Simon was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, where his father was an officer in the French colonial army. After his father was killed in the First World War, Claude Simon was raised by his mother's family in Salses, near Perpignan. He was educated in Paris, Oxford and Cambridge and then returned to Paris where he enrolled at an art school, the Academie André Lhote, only to discover that he did not want to become a painter.
Claude Simon travelled in Spain, the Soviet Union, Italy and ...
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Harold Pinter
English author, poet, playwright and actor. Harold Pinter was born in Hackney in London's East End as the only child of Frances and Jack Pinter, a Jewish tailor. During the war he was evacuated to Cornwall in southwest England. The war and anti-Semitism were major influences on his later view of the world. Pinter started to write poetry at the age of twelve; one of his poems was published in the school magazine in 1947. He was introduced to drama at Hackney Grammar School, which he attended...
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Nora Roberts
The American author Nora Roberts was born as Eleanor Marie Robertson in Silver Spring, Maryland. She grew up as the only daughter, the youngest of five siblings, in a family of Irish descent. She married Ronald Aufdem-Brinke in 1968 when she was only 18 years old and straight after graduating from Montgomery Blair High School. For a while she worked as a secretary in a lawyers’ firm, but after the birth of her two sons became a housewife with hobbies including ceramics and sewing. The marriage e...
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Kriminallitteraturens internationella historia
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Nytt & omarbetat
September 2024
Av: Redaktionen
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