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  • It is 88 years today since Brian Freemantle was born.

    Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...

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Författarporträtt av Hammesfahr, Petra

Hammesfahr, Petra
1951 -

Petra Hammesfahr is an award-winning, bestselling German author of crime fiction. All her principal characters are women....

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Författarporträtt av Dunsany, Edward Plunkett

Dunsany, Edward Plunkett
1878 - 1957

The Irish author Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, was a major celebrity in the first half of the...

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Författarporträtt av Sjöwall, Maj

Sjöwall, Maj
1935 - 2020

Maj Sjöwall was a Swedish author, journalist and translator born in Stockholm. Having been married twice between 1955 and ...

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Hammett, Dashiell
1894 - 1961

American detective writer, born in St. Mary's County in Maryland. He grew up in Baltimore where his family moved when he...

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