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It is 50 years today since Jens Lapidus was born.
Jens Lapidus grew up on the outskirts of Stockholm. His mother was a social worker and his father a journalist who, among other things, worked for an immigrant magazine. As a result, Lapidus became aware of how more marginalised people lived from a young age. He was a trouble-maker in secondary school; had it been today, he believes he would have been diagnosed with behavioural disorder. He went...
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Wells, Carolyn
1862 - 1942
Carolyn Wells was a best-selling American author of children’s and young adult books and mystery stories in the early 1...
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Haas, Wolf
1960 -
Wolf Haas is an Austrian linguist and advertising copywriter who has emerged over the past years as one of the most...
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Tokarczuk, Olga
1962 -
Polish author, born in the little village Klenica in western Poland, where her parents were teachers at a residential...
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Baldacci, David
1960 -
The American author David Baldacci, with family roots in Toscana in Italy, was born in Richmond, Virginia, as the youngest...
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