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Portrait of Friedrich Dürrenmatt Photo: Peter Peitsch (1986) / www.peitschphoto.com

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Dürrenmatt, Friedrich

Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a German-language, Swiss author, playwright and social critic. He was born in the town of Stalden in Konolfingen, Bern, to a Protestant pastor who was the son of the famous politician and poet Ulrich Dürrenmatt. In 1935, his parents moved with their two children, Friedrich and his younger sister Verena, to Bern where he attended Freie Gymnasium between 1935 and 1937, and l...

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Portrait of Arturo Pérez-Reverte Photo: Ricardo Rubio/Europa Press via Getty Images (2019)

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Pérez-Reverte, Arturo

Spanish author born in Cartagena in the south-eastern part of the country. Between 1973 and 1994, Pérez-Reverte worked as a war correspondent and reported from most of the then on-going armed conflicts in Europe, Africa and Latin America for Spanish media. He is now a full-time novelist and journalist. He has been a columnist for XLSemanal – a Sunday supplement distributed with a number of Sp...

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