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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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Larsson, Åsa
1966 -
Swedish crime writer and former tax lawyer born in Uppsala. Both parents grew up near the city of Kiruna in the north of...
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Fonseca, Rubem
1925 - 2020
Brazilian author, born in Juiz de Fora in Minas Gerais, but at the age of 7 moved to Rio de Janeiro. Fonseca gained a...
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Pollock, Donald Ray
1954 -
The American author Donald Ray Pollock was born and grew up in America’s backyard. In the little community called K...
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Schlink, Bernhard
1944 -
The German lawyer and author Bernhard Schlink was born in Grossdornberg (now part of the city of Bielefeld) and grew up in...
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