Bakkeid, Heine
1974 -

Heine Bakkeid was born in Gratangen in Troms in northern Norway. He grew up there and in Kvæfjord outside Harstad. Heine ...

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Unsworth, Barry
1930 - 2012

The British author Barry Unsworth was born to a family of miners in County Durham, northeast England. They moved away from...

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Niemi, Mikael
1959 -

Swedish author, born and raised in Pajala in Tornedalen, near the Finnish border. His grandmother was Saami and his father...

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McCall Smith, Alexander
1948 -

The British author Alexander McCall Smith – called Sandy by family and friends – was born in Bulawayo in the then British col...

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