Alvtegen, Karin
1965 -

Karin Alvtegen was born in Huskvarna in the Swedish province of Småland. Her parents were teachers. She specialised in ...

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Cornwell, Patricia D.
1956 -

The American crime writer Patricia Cornwell was born in Miami, Florida, as Patricia Carroll Daniels. After her parents’ d...

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Temple, Peter
1946 - 2018

Peter Temple was born in South Africa, but left the country in 1980, deeply sickened by the white regime’s apartheid p...

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McCall Smith, Alexander
1948 -

The British author Alexander McCall Smith – called Sandy by family and friends – was born in Bulawayo in the then British col...

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