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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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Blædel, Sara

The Danish journalist and author Sara Blædel spent her early life in the Copenhagen district of Østerbro. When she was about eleven years old, the family moved to their former holiday home near Hvalsø in central Jutland where she grew up an only child. Her father was the well-known journalist Leif Blædel and her mother the actor Annegrethe Nissen. As a young girl, Sara Blædel loved horses, and she...

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