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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Aird, Catherine
1930 -

Catherine Aird is the pen name of the British crime writer Kinn Hamilton McIntosh. She was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire,...

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Krabbé, Tim
1943 -

Hans Maarten Timotheus Krabbé was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he still lives. His father, Maarten Krabbé, and h...

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Oates, Joyce Carol
1938 -

American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the...

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