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21 September 2026 marks 160 years since the birth of Herbert George Wells in Bromley, Kent. The son of small shopkeepers, he grew up under the threat...
21 September 2026 is 89 years since the first British publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel “The Hobbit.” The book appeared in 1937 and opened Middle-...
Stephen Edwin King turns 79 on 21 September 2026. He was born in 1947 in Portland, Maine, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. Aft...
The 78th Frankfurt Book Fair is scheduled from 7 to 11 October 2026. It remains the main meeting point of the publishing-rights market: publishers, li...
Donald Hall was born on 20 September 1928 in Hamden, Connecticut. 20 September 2026 marks 98 years since the birth of the American poet and essayist....
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was born on 20 September 1878 in Baltimore. He wrote dozens of books — novels, investigations, plays — and ran for office in...
George R. R. Martin turns 78. Born in Bayonne, New Jersey, on 20 September 1948, he sold stories to neighbourhood children, studied journalism at Nort...
Italo Calvino died in Siena on 19 September 1985, after a cerebral haemorrhage. He was 61. Born on 15 October 1923 in Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, to...
18 September 2026 marks 317 years since the birth of Samuel Johnson in Lichfield, England. Encyclopaedia Britannica and the London house-museum record...
17 September 2026 marks 143 years since the birth of American poet and physician William Carlos Williams. He was born in Rutherford, New Jersey. He st...
17 September 2026 marks 72 years since Faber and Faber published Lord of the Flies in the United Kingdom. It was William Golding’s debut novel. The da...
Bucharest is hosting the 16th edition of its International Poetry Festival from 14 to 20 September, bringing Romanian and international writers togeth...
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