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Mailer, Norman
The American author, journalist and public debater Norman (in reality Nachem Malek) Mailer was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, but grew up in Brooklyn. In social terms he came from the Jewish lower middle class. After obtaining a degree in engineering at the University of Harvard, he participated during the final phase of the Second World War in the battles in the Pacific Ocean, among other...
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Kallentoft, Mons
Mons Kallentoft is a Swedish writer and journalist born in Ljungsbro near Linköping. He began to write at the age of fourteen when he was bed-ridden after an operation. After leaving school he worked in Sweden for a while. He then moved to Madrid in order to write. While there he worked on the draft of his debut novel Pesetas (2000). By the time it was published he was back in Sweden where he ...
