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It is 50 years today since Jens Lapidus was born.
Jens Lapidus grew up on the outskirts of Stockholm. His mother was a social worker and his father a journalist who, among other things, worked for an immigrant magazine. As a result, Lapidus became aware of how more marginalised people lived from a young age. He was a trouble-maker in secondary school; had it been today, he believes he would have been diagnosed with behavioural disorder. He went...
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Aird, Catherine
1930 -
Catherine Aird is the pen name of the British crime writer Kinn Hamilton McIntosh. She was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire,...
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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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Larsson, Åsa
1966 -
Swedish crime writer and former tax lawyer born in Uppsala. Both parents grew up near the city of Kiruna in the north of...
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Truc, Olivier
1964 -
The French author Olivier Truc is a journalist and war correspondent. Truc has been working for Le Monde in Scandinavia and...
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