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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 Gerhardsen, Carin](images/writer/5540/wm_BR_5540_20150907152613_Large.jpg)
Gerhardsen, Carin
1962 -
Carin Behrman, as she was called in those days, was born and grew up in Katrineholm. Her father was a judge at the...
Further reading![Portrait of Graham Greene](images/writer/644/60990febd8a26a39ca6571e31b7ef78525b7a256ef0d0.jpg)
Greene, Graham
1904 - 1991
Henry Graham Greene was a British author and journalist born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, who became one of the foremost...
Further reading![Portrait of Gisa Klönne](images/writer/5198/609566b25fc2076ee4dff390e2720f9dc2e88dc99df24.jpg)
Klönne, Gisa
1964 -
The German author Gisa Klönne was born in Stuttgart and grew up in Darmstadt. She wanted to become an author from an early ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Lindell, Unni](images/writer/2832/wm_BR_2832_20151124161611_Large.jpg)
Lindell, Unni
1957 -
Unni Maria Lindell is one of Norway’s most productive and best selling authors. Although she is best known for her crime n...
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