Temple, Peter
1946 - 2018

Peter Temple was born in South Africa, but left the country in 1980, deeply sickened by the white regime’s apartheid p...

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Glauser, Friedrich
1896 - 1938

The Swiss author Friedrich Glauser was born in Vienna. His mother was Austrian and his father was from Switzerland....

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Rowling, J.K.
1965 -

The British writer, J.K. Rowling, was born as Joanne Rowling in Yate in Gloucestershire, England. As an adult, she added...

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Malet, Léo
1909 - 1996

French author born as Léon Malet in Montpellier. Having lost his parents when he was four years old, he was raised by his ...

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