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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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![Portrait of Jason Goodwin](images/writer/4647/6075a88030eb2efe6f56f857bcc95b12e5032bc0c82d4.jpeg)
Goodwin, Jason
1964 -
Jason Goodwin is a British author and journalist. His mother, the bohemian author Jocasta Innes, and his father, the author...
Further reading![Portrait image of Åsa Nilsonne](images/writer/1251/wm_BR_62e3de467769fb119ce0b1509e71cd2a5268b397b1161.jpg)
Nilsonne, Åsa
1949 -
Åsa Nilsonne is a Swedish psychiatrist, translator and crime writer. She was born in Stockholm, but as the daughter of a ...
Further reading![Portrait of Olga Tokarczuk](images/writer/3190/609426f0149b572a6936d1642e0238cb5e140d8a0d137.jpg)
Tokarczuk, Olga
1962 -
Polish author, born in the little village Klenica in western Poland, where her parents were teachers at a residential...
Further reading![Portrait image of Jan Guillou](images/writer/661/wm_BR_62e3d8fe4bc88bfb01c5709382cf4e2a8daf0e2dea531.jpg)
Guillou, Jan
1944 -
Swedish author and journalist, who was born in Södertälje and grew up in Saltsjöbaden. Jan Guillou, who has French ancestry (...
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