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Villar, Domingo
Domingo Villar was a Spanish novelist born in Vigo, Galicia, but later he resided in Madrid. He was for many years host for a radio show about food. When he was not writing novels he published short stories in magazines and produced screenplays for film and television. Villar died at only 51 years old due to a stroke.
Domingo Villar published his first novel, Water-Blue Eyes, in 2006. He wrote...
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Symons, Julian
Julian Gustave Symons was a British author and critic born in London, where he spent part of his life. His mother was English and his father a Russian Jew, a stern Victorian patriarch who gave his son little or no encouragement. Symons developed such a severe stammer in childhood that he was sent to a succession of state schools for retarded children. He was close to his twelve years older...
