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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 intellectual abilities led him to become a professor in Basel at the age of 24.
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Agatha Christie, the queen of detective novels, started the action with a murder. She created unforgettable characters and plots where the culprit is often the most unexpected. The first book "The Mysterious Incident at Styles" was published in 1920, introducing Hercule Poirot.
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Of all Croatian antiquarians, Daniel Glavan and his Biblos are the most common address for old and rare Croatian books. For Glavan, it is "a job, a passion, and a hobby." He is interested in manuscript books, books written in Glagolitic and Croatian Cyrillic, first editions by authors such as Marulić and Bošković. The most expensive book is sold for 10,000 euros, and some of the most sought-after books were destroyed.
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George Orwell was born under the name Eric Arthur Blair in 1903 in India in the Sahib class (the name by which Europeans were addressed in the colonial era). His father was a British official in the Indian civil service, and his mother, French, was the daughter of an unsuccessful teak merchant in Burma. His family was part of the upper middle class, and Orwell himself later referred to this class as the "landless nobility", that is, people whose pretensions to social status do not correspond to
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Charles Bukowski was born in Germany in 1920. His mother was German, and his father was an American soldier. He was an only child. When he was two years old, Charles boarded a ship with his parents and sailed to the United States. They settled in Los Angeles, where Bukowski lived for the rest of his life. The writer had a very difficult childhood. He described it as a horror story and stated that his father beat him almost daily. Looking back on his upbringing, he once asserted: "It was a very g
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Jon Fosse wins the hearts of readers with minimalist dramas whose language borders on lyrical prose and poetry. He is a genius, a modern classic, a successor to Ibsen. This award confirms his ability to evoke emotions, drawing readers into the depths of the human psyche.
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Meša Selimović is a great Bosnian writer born on April 26, 1910 in Tuzla. He developed his love for reading as a teenager. He considers Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment" to be a crucial work that shaped his literary path.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn joined the Red Army during Nazi Germany's attack on the Soviet Union. As a commander, he participated in the liberation of Orel and Berlin. Criticism of Stalin led to his imprisonment for "counter-revolutionary activities".
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Thomas Bernhard has often been compared to Kafka and Becket. His novels are considered masterpieces of the 20th century. He began his career as a poet in the 1950s, and published his first novel "Mraz" in 1963. In his works, he explores themes such as death, faith and nonsense.
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