Answers to the questions here
1.
Geneva, where I celebrated my first birthday!
2.
11:
Virgil, Borges, Rimbaud, Sappho, Dante, Machado, emperor Hadrian, Yourcenar, Wolf, Robert Graves, Saint-Exupéry
3.
13: The ones mentioned above plus
Stevenson and Lutter Blisset
4.
2:
Virgil and Borges
5.
Sappho, Virginia Wolf, Marguerite Yourcenar
6. Michael Ende's "The Neverending Story"