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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 Biggers, Earl Derr

Biggers, Earl Derr
1884 - 1933

Earl Derr Biggers was an American journalist, theatre critic and the father of Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective from...

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Portrait of Bernhard Schlink

Schlink, Bernhard
1944 -

The German lawyer and author Bernhard Schlink was born in Grossdornberg (now part of the city of Bielefeld) and grew up in...

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Författarporträtt av Eco, Umberto

Eco, Umberto
1932 - 2016

Umberto Eco was an Italian author, literary scholar, historian and philosopher born in Alessandria in Piedmont. His surname...

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Portrait image of Margery Allingham

Allingham, Margery
1904 - 1966

English crime writer born in Ealing, London, as the daughter of Herbert John Allingham and his wife and cousin Emily Jane...

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