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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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![Portrait of James Runcie](images/writer/6910/609a865e9663069c740c8b1250023637b704a128b1afd.jpg)
Runcie, James
1959 -
James Robert Runcie is an author, documentary film maker, television producer and playwright. He was born in Cambridge and...
Further reading![Portrait of Claudia Piñeiro](images/writer/6079/60941e75c4544cd2a5a3509fb1985e5aaf1aebefd10bc.jpg)
Piñeiro, Claudia
1960 -
Argentinian author born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires. Claudia Piñeiro started reading social sciences, but she switched to ...
Further reading![Portrait of Derek Raymond](images/writer/7483/609a47a1d80f7efd8dc014e8fc99440b06b56e1e4b56c.jpg)
Raymond, Derek
1931 - 1994
English author, who during a Bohemian and wandering life occupied himself with a number of different jobs and activities, a...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Noll, Ingrid](images/writer/1263/wm_BR_1263_20140327165622_Large.jpg)
Noll, Ingrid
1935 -
The German author Ingrid Noll was born in Shanghai. Her parents had left Hessen for China where her father, a physician,...
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