Skvorecky, Josef
1924 - 2012

The Czech author, editor, translator and (film)scriptwriter Josef Škvorecký was born in Náchod, in Bohemia. He is co...

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Francis, Dick
1920 - 2010

The British jockey and author Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis is famous worldwide both as a champion jockey – at one time j...

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Poe, Edgar Allan
1809 - 1849

Edgar Allan Poe, born Edgar Poe, was an American author of Irish descent whose contribution to the horror, crime and...

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Jungstedt, Mari
1962 -

Mari Jungstedt is a Swedish journalist, broadcaster and author born in Stockholm. Her parents were very young when they...

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