
Sample of authors
Higgins, Jack
British/Irish – he had double citizenship – author and former teacher, born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was christened Henry Patterson but was called, even by himself, Harry. He is, however, best known under the pseudonym Jack Higgins. When he was still a baby, his father left the family and his mother moved with her son to her own father in Belfast, where the boy attended Nettlefield Primary Sch...

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Tokarczuk, Olga
Polish author, born in the little village Klenica in western Poland, where her parents were teachers at a residential college, but from the age of one she grew up in the town of Kietrz. As an adult, Olga Tokarczuk moved to Warsaw, trained as a Jungian psychologist and has also worked as a psychotherapist. She has since lived in many places, but is now settled in Wroclaw and Nowa Ruda close to...