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  • It is 75 years today since Ingrid Hedström was born.

    TThe Swedish journalist and author Ingrid Hedström were born in Söderhamn in the central Swedish province of Hälsingland, and then moved to Avesta in nearby Dalarna when she was five years old. She is said to be one of the 1960’s so-called "welfare-state princesses", meaning that she was the first in her family to graduate from high school. She completed her final exam at Avesta Grammar School in...

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Portrait of John (f. 1926) Gardner

Gardner, John (b. 1926)
1926 - 2007

John Edmund Gardner was a British novelist. He was born in the village of Seaton Delaval in Northumberland as the son of a...

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Portrait image of Fredrik Skagen

Skagen, Fredrik
1936 - 2017

Fredrik Skagen is one of Norway’s most popular award-winning crime writers. He was born in Trondheim where he lived all his l...

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Portrait image of Richard Osman

Osman, Richard
1970 -

Richard Osman is an English comedian, TV-personality and programme presenter who made his international writing...

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Författarporträtt av Dunant, Sarah

Dunant, Sarah
1950 -

The writer, broadcaster and critic Sarah Dunant was born in London. She attended Godolphin and Latymer School and Newnham...

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