Stockholm in the Space Age

The atlas holds 6 people and 8 moments here, from 1957 to 2015. The most recorded lives are Albert Camus, Nadine Gordimer and Gabriel García Márquez.

Albert Camus
in 1957
2 moments here
French writer, philosopher, journalist, and political activist, born in French Algeria. Camus studied and worked in Algiers, moved between Algeria…
Nadine Gordimer
from 1991 to 2001
2 moments here
South African novelist, short-story writer, and anti-apartheid activist whose work examined apartheid, race, power, and moral responsibility.…
Gabriel García Márquez
in 1982
1 moment here
Colombian novelist, journalist, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate whose life moved between Colombia, Europe, Cuba, the United States, Mexico, and…
Stephen Hawking
in 2015
1 moment here
English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author whose work on singularities, black-hole thermodynamics, and Hawking radiation reshaped modern…
Freddie Mercury
in 1986
1 moment here
Freddie Mercury (Farrokh Bulsara) was a British singer, songwriter, pianist, and lead vocalist of Queen.…
Wangarĩ Maathai
in 1984
1 moment here
Kenyan environmentalist, democracy activist, academic, founder of the Green Belt Movement, parliamentarian, and the first African woman awarded the…