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Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in 1927 in the provincial, sleepy town of Aracataca, located in the tropical area of northern Colombia, between the mountains and the Caribbean Se ... The winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Knut Hamsun, was born in 1859 in Norway. When he turned five, the family moved to the north of the country, and the specific landscape ... Since he grew up in a Christian environment, they directed him to join the ministry and sent him to a seminary. Hermann didn't do very well there. Soon he began to suffer from inso ... Although today words like "damn" or "bastard" do not sound so intriguing, in the 1950s such speech was banned in schools around the world. Moreover, teachers were losing their jobs ... One April afternoon, while watching a baseball game at the stadium, Haruki Murakami was overcome with a strong feeling that he could write a novel. That day everything changed in h ... The writer grew up surrounded by music, literature and art. His parents recognized his talents and instilled in him a love of learning. He loved to read and observe the world aroun ... He spent his childhood in solitude, surrounded by a nanny, a cook and a maid. He suffered from being left to himself, as well as from a lack of emotional connection with his parent ... Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in 1821 in Moscow. A sensitive child from a family where his father was strict and his mother was kind, he was close to his brother Mihail a ... Friedrich Nietzsche, born in October 1844 in Germany, was raised in the religious spirit of a Lutheran priest. Doubted Christianity after his father's death. His extraordinary inte ... Biblos Newsletter New titles, special copies and quiet recommendations from the antiquarian bookshop. From the media
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: "There is always something left to love."
Knut Hamsun - can the writer's political views be separated from his literary work?
Hermann Hesse's search for meaning through Eastern philosophy, Jungian archetypes and Western individualism
J. D. Salinger the aloof rebel
Haruki Murakami enlightenment at a baseball game
Milan Kundera: "Anyone whose goal is "something more" must expect to suffer from vertigo one day."
Franz Kafka, a genius who did not believe in his literary talent
Fyodor Mihajlovic Dostoevsky, the greatest psychologist in literature
Friedrich Nietzsche - a great philosopher whose ideas were often misused
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