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Krasznahorkai, László
The Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai was born in a Jewish middle-class family in Gyula, southeast Hungary, which he describes as "a rather strange, sad place, full of lonely, peculiar people". His father was a lawyer and his mother a social security administrator. Krasznahorkai deserted from military service after having been punished for insubordination, and he drifted around for a few y...
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Slaughter, Karin
The American author Karin Slaughter was born and raised in Jonesboro, a small town near Atlanta, Georgia where her father worked as a car salesman. She went to college for two years without graduating and then ran a small design company before she made her debut as a crime novelist in 2001.
Her first book, Blindsighted, was translated into some thirty languages and became a major bestseller in...