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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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Portrait of Simon Brett

Brett, Simon
1945 -

British author born in Worcester Park, Surrey. In 1949, the family moved to Ealing and a year later to Banstead where he...

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Författarporträtt av Peace, David

Peace, David
1967 -

David Peace is a British novelist. He was born and raised in Osset near Leeds in Yorkshire. He was educated in Wakefield,...

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Portrait image of Kim Småge

Småge, Kim
1945 -

Kim Småge is a pseudonym used by the Norwegian author Anne Karin Thorshus who was born in Trondheim. After having completed ...

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Portrait of Aaron Elkins

Elkins, Aaron
1935 -

Aaron Elkins is an American crime writer born in Brooklyn, New York. He read anthropology and psychology at Hunter College,...

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