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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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![Författarporträtt av Rosenfeldt, Hans](images/writer/5875/wm_BR_5875_20160808191152_Large.jpg)
Rosenfeldt, Hans
1964 -
Hans Gerhard Magnus Rosenfeldt is a Swedish author and actor. He is also one of the screenwriters behind the international...
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Doyle, Arthur Conan
1859 - 1930
Scottish author with Irish ancestry, born in Edinburgh. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, worked as a civil servant, but...
Further reading![Portrait image of Erle Stanley Gardner](images/writer/595/6197d8790843efbe9a636f5c89dffe24db04adc9d5883.jpg)
Gardner, Erle Stanley
1889 - 1970
Erle Stanley Gardner was an American author and lawyer born in Malden, Massachusetts. His father was a mining engineer who...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Persson, Leif G.W.](images/writer/1360/wm_BR_1360_20160419104604_Large.jpg)
Persson, Leif G.W.
1945 -
Leif Gustav Willy Persson is a Swedish author and criminologist who previously worked for the Swedish Police and the...
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