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... that Danilo Kiš's 1965 novel Garden, Ashes mixes fact and fiction, with both the narrator and the author having lost their fathers in the Holocaust?
... that in Lady of Sherwood, Jennifer Roberson chose to write about the demise of Richard I because the "death of a popular monarch always provide fodder for novelists"?
... that blind poet María Josefa Mujía was Bolivia's first woman writer after its independence?
... that De Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe, the 1924 Dutch children's book based on a real-life shipwreck in 1618, has sold more than 250,000 copies?
... that Iosif Vulcan changed the name of a young literary debutant to Mihai Eminescu, later Romania's national poet?