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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 Yorke, Margaret](images/writer/1902/wm_BR_1902_20140127180407_Large.jpg)
Yorke, Margaret
1924 - 2012
Margaret Yorke is the pseudonym of the popular English author of crime fiction Margaret Nicholson. She has been described...
Further reading![Portrait of John (f. 1926) Gardner](images/writer/3419/609958afc4fb186530bdbfba83a39e072f06e51d5a6e6.jpg)
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...
Further reading![Portrait image of Olivier Truc](images/writer/6719/wm_BR_6350337608fdce69bff48ec674196308bc81255ad254f.jpg)
Truc, Olivier
1964 -
The French author Olivier Truc is a journalist and war correspondent. Truc has been working for Le Monde in Scandinavia and...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Harper, Jane](images/writer/7092/wm_BL_5a059994497c2d67e7976e0707c3b74a294c583156bce.jpg)
Harper, Jane
1980 -
Jane Harper was born in Manchester, England. When she was eight years old she moved with her family to Australia. For six...
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