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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 Mehlum, Jan](images/writer/6746/wm_BR_6746_20160316143904_Large.jpg)
Mehlum, Jan
1945 -
Jan Mehlum is a Norwegian author and sociologist born in Tønsberg, Vestfold county. He has worked in management and teacher ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Kristensen, Tom](images/writer/6744/wm_BR_6744_20160316134200_Large.jpg)
Kristensen, Tom
1955 -
Tom Kristensen is a Norwegian economist, engineer and author born in Tjøme, Vestfold county. He has won fame as a writer of ...
Further reading![Portrait of Robert Harris](images/writer/3433/662a7462ec295abcadf29880aeaa2ccf66421e440b262.jpg)
Harris, Robert
1957 -
Robert Dennis Harris is a British author born in Nottingham where his father worked at a printing plant. When he was very...
Further reading![Portrait image of Fredrik Skagen](images/writer/1585/62697f18d8898b3f6846e4e369b98b6a831dae3812ed1.jpg)
Skagen, Fredrik
1936 - 2017
Fredrik Skagen is one of Norway’s most popular award-winning crime writers. He was born in Trondheim where he lived all his l...
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