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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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Författarporträtt av Reilly, Helen

Reilly, Helen
1891 - 1962

Critics often regard Helen Reilly as one of the most important female American crime writers of the 1930s. One reason for...

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Författarporträtt av Keeler, Harry Stephen

Keeler, Harry Stephen
1890 - 1967

The American author Harry Stephen Keeler was one of a kind. He wrote some seventy novels that are a blend of crime fiction,...

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Portrait image of Stieg Larsson

Larsson, Stieg
1954 - 2004

Stieg Larsson was a Swedish author and journalist who, despite only publishing three novels, is one of Sweden’s b...

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Portrait image of Frode Grytten

Grytten, Frode
1960 -

Frode Grytten is a Norwegian author and journalist born and raised in Odda, a small industrial community in southwest...

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