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Sample of authors
Le Carré, John
Born David John Moore Cornwell in Poole, county of Dorset, England, John le Carré grew up in a troubled home. While his father served a prison sentence for fraud, his mother left the family when David was five years old. He did not see her again until he was 21. He grew up at boarding schools and in his father’s home, before he got the opportunity to enter higher education at age 16. He studied la...
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Sample of authors
Camilleri, Andrea
Italian author and theatre/film producer, born in the industrial town Porto Empedocle in Agrigento province on the south coast of Sicily. He came from a culturally interested family – he says himself that his paternal grandfather was a good friend with Luigi Pirandello among others – and even in his youth was a large consumer of literature, which is clearly visible in his own works, as is his int...
