Nella Bielski, to whom Berger dedicated "Once in Europa" Though born in 1936, we hear nothing of World War II in the story ...

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Egyptian Coptic Woman Leila Hosnani’s story is told in Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandrian Quartet (published 1957-1960) . We meet her throu...

Tove Jansson overcame the darkness of an early life to become a bright and shining light. She was born in 1914 to a family of artists in H...

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Jill Ker Conway was born on a 32,000-acre sheep station in New South Wales, in 1934. Her parents were resourceful Australians with two son...