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Muñoz Molina, Antonio
The Spanish author Antonio Muñoz Molina was born at Úbeda in Jaén, Andalucia where he attended the Santo Domingo Savio Jesuit primary school and San Juan de la Cruz upper-secondary school. He then went on to read history of art at Granada and journalism at Madrid.
Muñoz Molina made his literary debut in 1984 with a collection of columns previously published in the daily newspaper Ideal in Gra...
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Qiu Xiaolong
Qiu Xiaolong is a Chinese author, poet, translator and scholar. He was born in Shanghai and grew up in post-revolution China. During the Cultural Revolution, when students were forced into the countryside to "learn from the peasants", Qiu remained in the city as he was often bedridden due to a respiratory problem. With nothing to do during long, tedious days he began to practice tai chi in the...
