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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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Allbeury, Ted
1917 - 2005
The British author of espionage fiction Theodore Edward le Bouthillier Allbeury was born in Stockport, Cheshire. His father...
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Fitzek, Sebastian
1971 -
The German author and game constructor Sebastian Fitzek was born in Berlin. After studying at Charlottenburger...
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Turow, Scott
1949 -
Scott Frederick Turow is an American author born in Chicago, Illinois, where his father was working as a physicist. Both...
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Marklund, Liza
1962 -
Elisabeth "Liza" Marklund is a successful author and journalist whose crime novels are widely translated and adapted for...
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