Anniversaries, 28 March
Marianne Fredriksson
Swedish author and journalist, born in Gothenburg but moved with her family to Roslagen as an adult. In 1962-74 Marianne Fredriksson was the editor-in-chief of Allt i hemmet, a magazine she also helped to start. She was also one of the initiators of the magazines Vi föräldrar and Allt om mat, and in 1968 she received The Journalistic award (Stora Journalistpriset) for her innovative work. Fredriksson was also affiliated with Svenska Dagbladet, where in the 70’s she was the one who started the To...
Anniversaries, 28 March
Maxim Gorky
Russian author, born and raised in Nizhny Novgorod at the Volga River. His real name was Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, but he took the name Maxim Gorky at the age of 24, when he made his debut as an author with the novel Makar Chudra (1892). The last name, Gorky, means "bitter" in Russian. His father was a carpenter and paperhanger, but the family was very poor. The parents died when he was a child, and Gorky therefore grew up with his mother’s parents. Here he got to experience a very strict g...
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Pamuk, Orhan
Turkish author, born and grew up in Istanbul, Nisantasi, in an affluent middle-class family. The father was a civil engineer, as was Orhan’s grandfather, who laid the foundations for the family’s fortune. After graduating from school – the secular American Robert College – Pamuk studied Architecture and Journalism. Until he was 22, he devoted himself to painting and dreamt of becoming an artist. T...