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Pérez-Reverte, Arturo
Spanish author born in Cartagena in the south-eastern part of the country. Between 1973 and 1994, Pérez-Reverte worked as a war correspondent and reported from most of the then on-going armed conflicts in Europe, Africa and Latin America for Spanish media. He is now a full-time novelist and journalist. He has been a columnist for XLSemanal – a Sunday supplement distributed with a number of Sp...
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Schlink, Bernhard
The German lawyer and author Bernhard Schlink was born in Grossdornberg (now part of the city of Bielefeld) and grew up in Heidelberg. His mother was Swiss and his father German, a professor of theology at the University of Heidelberg. As a young man Schlink was interested in literature; he wanted either to become an author or to study history and sociology. But he followed his father's advice...