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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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Atkinson, Kate
1951 -
The British author Kate Atkinson was born in York, her father was a shopkeeper. She read English literature at Dundee...
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Katzenbach, John
1950 -
American author and journalist, son of the famous and politically very active lawyer Nicholas Katzenbach, later the US...
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Krabbé, Tim
1943 -
Hans Maarten Timotheus Krabbé was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he still lives. His father, Maarten Krabbé, and h...
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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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