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  • It is 75 years today since Ingrid Hedström was born.

    TThe Swedish journalist and author Ingrid Hedström were born in Söderhamn in the central Swedish province of Hälsingland, and then moved to Avesta in nearby Dalarna when she was five years old. She is said to be one of the 1960’s so-called "welfare-state princesses", meaning that she was the first in her family to graduate from high school. She completed her final exam at Avesta Grammar School in...

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Författarporträtt av Tvedt, Chris

Tvedt, Chris
1954 -

The Norwegian author Baard Christian Tvedt was born in Bergen. He read architecture at the University of Birmingham, but...

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Portrait image of Sara Blædel

Blædel, Sara
1964 -

The Danish journalist and author Sara Blædel spent her early life in the Copenhagen district of Østerbro. When she was a...

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Portrait image of Liza Cody

Cody, Liza
1944 -

Pseudonym for Liza Nassim, English crime fiction writer, born in London where she grew up. She had problems in school – it l...

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Portrait of Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Pérez-Reverte, Arturo
1951 -

Spanish author born in Cartagena in the south-eastern part of the country. Between 1973 and 1994, Pérez-Reverte worked as a ...

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