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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 image of Daphne Du Maurier](images/writer/422/6197cac3e67140535ec9416b9017c3db36835e39e7782.jpg)
Du Maurier, Daphne
1907 - 1989
The British novelist and playwright Daphne du Maurier was born in London to parents who were both prominent actors; her...
Further reading![Portrait image of Boris Akunin](images/writer/3058/6634c405bc6f65ba4c86f749174818456e70044d53ca7.jpg)
Akunin, Boris
1956 -
Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was...
Further reading![Portrait image of Antti Tuomainen](images/writer/6081/62aa58750aeed7fc046658c3a6879120be01a85dd12fc.jpg)
Tuomainen, Antti
1971 -
A Finnish author and journalist who gained international attention with his crime novels. They are translated into a number...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Bakkeid, Heine](images/writer/7383/wm_BR_5d9b217e51749c4bc71735056610d67a7be326474e0c1.jpg)
Bakkeid, Heine
1974 -
Heine Bakkeid was born in Gratangen in Troms in northern Norway. He grew up there and in Kvæfjord outside Harstad. Heine ...
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