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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...
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Osman, Richard
Richard Osman is an English comedian, TV-personality and programme presenter who made his international writing breakthrough with his first novel, the detective story The Thursday Murder Club (2020). The film rights were sold quickly, and there were immediate plans for a TV-series.
He was born in Billericay in Essex, but grew up in Cuckfield, close to Haywards Heath in West Sussex. When he was...