Muriel Barbery (born May 28, 1969) French novelist – The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2006)
Read about Barbery's novel A Single Rose here
Rose goes to Kyoto Japan for the reading of her fathers’ will. A father who left her and her mother when she was just a baby. A father she had never met and had never received any communications from him. She’s resentful that he never contacted her, especially after her mother died a few years earlier.
Watch a short interview with Muriel Barbery
here
And a longer interview (in French) with Muriel Barbery
here
Patrick White (born May 28, 1912) Australian novelist, poet, 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature – Voss (1957)
Ian Fleming (born May 28, 1908) – U.K. novelist (James Bond series) – From Russia With Love (1957)
