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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 Brooks, Kevin](images/writer/3909/wm_BR_3909_20160419144335_Large.jpg)
Brooks, Kevin
1959 -
Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter and has studied Philosophy and Psychology at Aston University in Birmingham and in London....
Further reading![Portrait of Andrea Maria Schenkel](images/writer/5126/6037e6fddb3a4ad08e81f6abf66f2e6ad4c9aeb5490eb.jpg)
Schenkel, Andrea Maria
1962 -
The German author Andrea Maria Schenkel was born and raised in Regensburg. Her parents were civil servants. Her mother and,...
Further reading![Portrait image of Patrícia Melo](images/writer/3472/617a75a668274a4384de4c0fb7d5be18e6b4a9262dfdc.jpg)
Melo, Patrícia
1962 -
The Brazilian dramaturge, journalist and author Patrícia Melo is an internationally renowned member of a generation of ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Cole, G.D.H.](images/writer/7100/6197be7316a435021f2e866fe4dabf9f78345261e8242.jpg)
Cole, G.D.H.
1889 - 1959
He was born in Cambridge as George Douglas Howard Cole, but got his basic schooling at St. Paul’s School in London. He s...
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