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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 Hellström, Börge](images/writer/4440/wm_BR_4440_20161019005022_Large.jpg)
Hellström, Börge
1957 - 2017
Börge Hellström was a former criminal turned author. After a tough childhood he became an alcoholic and a drug addict, and e...
Further reading![Portrait of Michael Moorcock](images/writer/3473/60992f1a39f2524d472dbace1be0cbb4beeefac3927f4.jpg)
Moorcock, Michael
1939 -
The British author, editor and musician Michael John Moorcock is something of a phenomenon. He began his career as the...
Further reading![Portrait image of Peter (f. 1947) Abrahams](images/writer/4469/619780930854dcf1b1bf7b4bd6991d74e43c84b17f8d3.jpg)
Abrahams, Peter (1947-)
1947 -
Peter Abrahams is an American author born in Boston, Massachusetts, where he also grew up. Summer holidays were spent in...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Collins, Wilkie](images/writer/2056/2056.jpg)
Collins, Wilkie
1824 - 1889
The British author Wilkie Collins (William Wilkie Collins) wrote a series of extremely successful novels as well as a...
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