Fowles, John
1926 - 2005

John Robert Fowles was born in a middle-class family in the Essex town of Leigh-on-Sea. His father, Robert Fowles, dreamt...

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Böll, Heinrich
1917 - 1985

German author born in Cologne. Böll was brought up a Roman Catholic in a middle-class family with pacifist and anti-Nazi ...

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Brecht, Bertolt
1898 - 1956

German poet, playwright and essayist born in Augsburg where his father was the managing director of a paper mill. Brecht...

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Kent, Hannah
1985 -

The Australian author Hannah Kent looks back on an idyllic childhood in Adelaide Hills. Together with her little sister,...

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