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Piglia, Ricardo
Argentinian novelist, critic, essayist and university lecturer born in the city of Adrogué 200 kilometres south of Buenos Aires. The family moved to Mar del Plata when Ricardo was fourteen. He read history at the National University of La Plata, and from the mid-1960s and for a period of ten years he worked in publishing in Buenos Aires. He was, among other things, in charge of Serie Negra, an ...
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McClure, James
The journalist and author James "Jim" McClure’s Scottish parents left for South Africa in 1930, and he was subsequently born in Johannesburg. The family soon moved to Pretoria and then to Pietermaritzburg in Natal. McClure was educated at Scottsville School in 1947–51, Cowan House in 1952–54 and Maritzburg College in 1955–58, all in Pietermaritzburg. He worked as a photographer between 1958 and 19...
