Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Anna Kavan

Born: April 10, 1901
Died: December 5, 1968 (aged 67)
Bio: Anna Kavan was a British novelist, short story writer and painter. Originally publishing under her first married name, Helen Ferguson, she adopted the name Anna Kavan in 1939, not only as a nom de plume but as her legal identity.
Known for:
- Asylum piece and other stories (1940)
- Sleep Has His House (1948)
- A scarcity of love (1956)
- A stranger still (1935)