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  • It is 131 years today since Dorothy L. Sayers was born.

    English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and his wife Helen Leigh Sayers. When Dorothy L. (Leigh) Sayers was four years old, the family moved to Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire where the father was appointed pastor. The parents had cultural and linguistic interests, and regularly travelled with their daughter to...

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Portrait of Ricardo Piglia

Piglia, Ricardo
1941 - 2017

Argentinian novelist, critic, essayist and university lecturer born in the city of Adrogué 200 kilometres south of Buenos ...

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Författarporträtt av Slaughter, Karin

Slaughter, Karin
1971 -

The American author Karin Slaughter was born and raised in Jonesboro, a small town near Atlanta, Georgia where her father...

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Författarporträtt av Izner, Claude

Izner, Claude
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Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefèvre, are the two sisters behind the pseudonym Claude Izner. Their father was a bookseller, a ...

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Portrait of Chester Himes

Himes, Chester
1909 - 1984

Chester Bomar Himes was among the foremost Afro-American authors, especially in terms of the way he wrote about racism in...

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