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  • It is 75 years today since Ingrid Hedström was born.

    TThe Swedish journalist and author Ingrid Hedström were born in Söderhamn in the central Swedish province of Hälsingland, and then moved to Avesta in nearby Dalarna when she was five years old. She is said to be one of the 1960’s so-called "welfare-state princesses", meaning that she was the first in her family to graduate from high school. She completed her final exam at Avesta Grammar School in...

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Portrait image of Lynn Shepherd

Shepherd, Lynn
1964 -

The British author, Lynn Shepherd, attracted a great deal of attention in literary circles with her crime novels that...

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Portrait of Rubem Fonseca

Fonseca, Rubem
1925 - 2020

Brazilian author, born in Juiz de Fora in Minas Gerais, but at the age of 7 moved to Rio de Janeiro. Fonseca gained a...

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Portrait of Tami Hoag

Hoag, Tami
1959 -

Tami Hoag is an American author. She was born in Cresco, Iowa, and grew up in the small town of Harmony in southeast...

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Författarporträtt av Cole, G.D.H.

Cole, G.D.H.
1889 - 1959

He was born in Cambridge as George Douglas Howard Cole, but got his basic schooling at St. Paul’s School in London. He s...

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