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Parsons, Tony
English author and journalist, born and grew up as the only child in a working-class family in Romford, Essex. When Tony Parsons was five years old the family moved to Billericay, also in Essex, where he grew up. He attended Barstable Grammar School in Basildon, which he left at the age of 16 with rotten grades. In the years immediately after that, he had several short, menial jobs, including a...
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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...
