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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...
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Meyer, Deon
Deon Meyer is something of a rarity in that he is a South African crime writer who has had his crime novels, written in Afrikaans, translated for the international market. He was born in Paarl in the Cape Province and grew up in Klerksdorp, in north-western South Africa where his father worked in a gold mine. Deon Meyer matriculated in 1976 at Schoonspruit High School in Klerksdorp. He gained a...
