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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 Pamuk, Orhan](images/writer/1339/wm_BR_1339_20130529152740_Large.jpg)
Pamuk, Orhan
1952 -
Turkish author, born and grew up in Istanbul, Nisantasi, in an affluent middle-class family. The father was a civil...
Further reading![Portrait image of P.D. James](images/writer/845/662a59e62e1ab1f5dc70241b04e747c811f65e32e680f.jpg)
James, P.D.
1920 - 2014
English crime writer born in Oxford as Phyllis Dorothy James. She graduated from the Cambridge High School for Girls in...
Further reading![Portrait image of Boris Akunin](images/writer/3058/6634c405bc6f65ba4c86f749174818456e70044d53ca7.jpg)
Akunin, Boris
1956 -
Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Kristensen, Tom](images/writer/6744/wm_BR_6744_20160316134200_Large.jpg)
Kristensen, Tom
1955 -
Tom Kristensen is a Norwegian economist, engineer and author born in Tjøme, Vestfold county. He has won fame as a writer of ...
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