Tournier, Michel
1924 - 2016

Michel Edouard Tournier was born in Paris. His parents met at the Sorbonne, where they both studied German. For this...

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Trevor, William
1928 - 2016

William Trevor Cox was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, the Republic of Ireland, as the son of a Protestant bank...

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Döblin, Alfred
1878 - 1957

Alfred Döblin was a German author, born Bruno Alfred Döblin to a German-Jewish merchant family in Stettin (now Szcecin in P...

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Updike, John
1932 - 2009

American author, born in the small town of Shillington in Pennsylvania, where also his earliest works take place, but then...

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