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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 Haas, Wolf

Haas, Wolf
1960 -

Wolf Haas is an Austrian linguist and advertising copywriter who has emerged over the past years as one of the most...

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Portrait image of Dominique Manotti

Manotti, Dominique
1942 -

Behind the name Dominique Manotti hides the professor of Economic History Marie-Noëlle Thibault. It was when she, in her ...

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Portrait of Faye Kellerman

Kellerman, Faye
1952 -

The American crime novelist Faye Marder Kellerman was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She moved with her family to Sherman...

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Författarporträtt av Lockridge, Frances

Lockridge, Frances
1896 - 1963

The American author and journalist Frances Lockridge was born as Frances Davis in Kansas City in Missouri, where she also...

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