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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 image of Frode Grytten](images/writer/3426/6266d0716b8dba1fa2634bba6bc5d5afdf5ed500bf820.jpg)
Grytten, Frode
1960 -
Frode Grytten is a Norwegian author and journalist born and raised in Odda, a small industrial community in southwest...
Further reading![Portrait image of August Derleth](images/writer/7110/618cf90868eb4fd16cb7c1e04947fe73fa84bbd178948.jpg)
Derleth, August
1909 - 1971
American author, poet, editor and publisher, who wrote his first published novel Bat’s Belfry when he was 15 years old. W...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Gerhardsen, Carin](images/writer/5540/wm_BR_5540_20150907152613_Large.jpg)
Gerhardsen, Carin
1962 -
Carin Behrman, as she was called in those days, was born and grew up in Katrineholm. Her father was a judge at the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Kallifatides, Theodor](images/writer/899/wm_BR_5a3a4d0f22d8b4b5bd4022376cc38b40bfe74f42bdea8.jpg)
Kallifatides, Theodor
1938 -
Theodor Kallifatides was born in the village of Molaoi in the Peloponnese in Greece. His father was an elementary school...
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