Grünbein, Durs
1962 -

The German poet and essayist Durs Grünbein was born in Dresden in the then DDR (East Germany). The city still clearly ...

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Woolf, Virginia
1882 - 1941

The English author Virginia Woolf, born Stephen, grew up in an educated higher middle-class family in Hyde Park in London....

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O'Donnell, Peter
1920 - 2010

Peter O’Donnell was a British author born in Lewisham, London, to an Irish family. His father was a well-known crime r...

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Andersen, Vita
1944 - 2021

The Danish author Vita Anderson was born in Copenhagen. Her father, the author Aage Neutzsky-Wulff (1891–1967) had many c...

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