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    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 Eriksson, Kjell

Eriksson, Kjell
1953 -

The Swedish author and gardener Kjell Eriksson was born in Uppsala, Sweden and grew up in a working-class family on...

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Författarporträtt av Mishani, Dror

Mishani, Dror
1975 -

Dror Mishani is an Israeli crime writer, born and raised in the Tel Aviv suburb of Holon. He is also a translator, literary...

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Portrait image of Josephine Bell

Bell, Josephine
1897 - 1987

Josephine Bell is the pseudonym of the British writer and physician Doris Bell Ball, the author of radio plays, serials, a...

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Portrait of James Runcie

Runcie, James
1959 -

James Robert Runcie is an author, documentary film maker, television producer and playwright. He was born in Cambridge and...

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