Who was born first, J. K. Rowling, or Bertolt Brecht?
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J. K. Rowling Joanne Rowling, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; born 31 July 1965), who writes under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist and screenwriter who wrote the "Harry Potter" fantasy series. The books have won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies. They have become the best-selling book series in history and been the basis for a series of films, over which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and was a producer on the final films in the series.
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Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich "Bertolt" Brecht ( ; ] ; 10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director of the 20th century. He made contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter through the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble – the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife, long-time collaborator and actress Helene Weigel.
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John Willett John Willett (24 June 1917 – 20 August 2002) was a British translator and a scholar who is remembered for translating the work of Bertolt Brecht into English.
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Bert Lytell Bert Lytell (February 24, 1885 in New York City – September 28, 1954 in New York City), Born Bertram Lytell, he was a popular screen star of the silent film era who starred in romantic, melodrama and adventure films.
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Jenny Bornholdt Jennifer Mary Bornholdt (born 1 November 1960) is a New Zealand poet and anthologist.
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Karen Lee Field Karen Lee Field (born in 1961 in London, England) is an author of fantasy novels for younger readers, 9 to 12-year olds, as well as adults. She also writes short fiction.
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Roger Boylan Roger Boylan is an American writer (b. 1951) who was raised in Ireland, France, and Switzerland. His Irish novel "Killoyle, "called "a virtuoso performance" by "Publishers Weekly", is published by Dalkey Archive Press. His second Irish novel, "The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad", is published by Grove Press; the "Village Voice" said it resembled the work of James Joyce "at his comically prolix best." Both novels were translated into German by the award-winning German translator and author Harry Rowohlt. The third volume in the Killoyle trilogy, "The Maladjusted Terrorist", was published in German in 2007, and the entire Killoyle trilogy was reissued as a boxed set that year by the Swiss publisher Kein und Aber.
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Mervyn Peake Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the "Gormenghast" books. The three works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but his surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology.
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Tor Åge Bringsværd Tor Åge Bringsværd (born 16 November 1939 in Skien, Norway) is an author, playwright, editor and translator. He is perhaps best known for his speculative fiction. Together with long-time partner Jon Bing, he is also considered as the first Norwegian author to write science fiction literature. Bringsværd regards himself as an anarchist, which is clearly reflected in some of his works. He is also known for his distinctive style of writing, for example for his seemingly random jumps to narratives or anecdotes with no clear relationship to the main story.
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Peter Bently Peter Bently (born 1960) is a British children’s writer. He is best known for his rhyming picture books including "The Great Dog Bottom Swap" (with Mei Matsuoka), "Meet the Parents" (with Sara Ogilvie) and "The Shark in the Dark" (with Ben Cort). "Cats Ahoy!", his first picture book with Jim Field, won the "Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011" and "King Jack and the Dragon" (with Helen Oxenbury) was named as an American Library Association Notable Book of the year.
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Julian Jarrold Julian Edward Peter Jarrold (born 15 May 1960 in Norwich, Norfolk) is a BAFTA Award-nominated English film and television director.
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Benjamin Tabart Benjamin Tabart (1767–1833) was an English publisher and bookseller of the Juvenile Library in New Bond Street, London. Many of the books in his list were written by himself. In an age of strictly moralizing children's literature, he broke ground with his fairy tales and light-hearted nursery stories and chapbook tales. His is the first printed version (1804) of the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. Tabart had for an editor Mary Jane Clairmont, the second (Mrs William Godwin) and maintained close professional relations with the prolific publisher, Sir Richard Phillips.
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Hans Henrik Løyche Hans Henrik Løyche is a Danish science fiction writer, born in Copenhagen in 1964. He studied at the Academy of Arts before travelling around Asia, Africa and various Mediterranean countries. His first work was the novel "Støj" ("Baffling Noise"), published in 1996. Løyche was nominated for Europe's best science-fiction writer for 2007 and was a guest at the Eurocon 2007 science fiction convention.
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List of Harry Potter characters This is a list of characters in the "Harry Potter" series. They are all characters who have appeared in a "Harry Potter"-related book by J. K. Rowling.
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Kurt Tucholsky Kurt Tucholsky (] ; January 9, 1890 – December 21, 1935) was a German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser (after the historical figure), Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel. Born in Berlin-Moabit, he moved to Paris in 1924 and then to Sweden in 1929.
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Terence Beesley Terence Beesley is an English actor and writer. He was born in London in September 1957 to Irish parents and trained at the City Lit in London in 1980 and then the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He is married to Scottish actress Ashley Jensen (2007).
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Gerald Melling Gerald John Melling (1943 - 22 December 2012) was an English-born, Architect, Poet, Novelist, Journalist, Author and Editor.
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Mark Greenstreet Mark Greenstreet (born 19 April 1960) is a British actor who first came to prominence in the 1985 BBC television serial "Brat Farrar". First and foremost a stage actor, Greenstreet played many of the great leading roles from the works of Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen to Orton, Wilde and Coward in the UK and around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Ken Bruen Ken Bruen (born 1951) is an Irish writer of hard-boiled and noir crime fiction.
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Ingar Knudtsen Ingar Knudtsen is a Norwegian novelist and poet, who was born 23 December 1944, in Smøla, Norway. He published his first book in 1975. Since then, he has released roughly one book every year. Only a few of his works have been translated into English.
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Dorrit Dekk Dorrit Dekk, born Dorothy Karoline Fuhrmann, (18 May 1917 – 29 December 2014) was a Czech-born British graphic designer, printmaker and painter.
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O. R. Melling O.R. Melling, also known as G.V. Whelan, is an author of several fantasy novels. Melling's novels are aimed at both adults and young adults and contain stories mostly written around Irish and Celtic folklore, faeries in particular.