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Wentworth, Patricia
"Patricia Wentworth" was born Dora Amy Elles in Mussoorie, India, during the British Raj. Her father was an army officer, and like her brothers she was sent to school in England. After attending Blackheath High School, London, she returned to India where she married George F. Dillon, an army officer, in 1906. He died the same year, leaving his wife with three stepsons and a newly born...
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Pepetela
His full name is Artur Carlos Mauricio Pestana dos Santos, an Angolan author, born in the coastal town of Benguela. He took the name Pepetela, which means ‘eyelash’, during the war of liberation 1961-74 and he has used it since then as a pseudonym. His father had Portuguese parents but he too was born in Angola; his mother’s family had a Portuguese background but had lived in Angola for five gener...