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Leroux, Gaston
Gaston Leroux was born in Paris but grew up in a little village in Normandy close to the home of his maternal grandparents. As a child he was interested in swimming, sailing and deep-sea fishing, but he also developed an interest in literature at an early age. He particularly appreciated Alexandre Dumas père and Victor Hugo, and he wrote imitations of their works during his school years. After ...
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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...