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  • It is 53 years today since Denise Rudberg was born.

    Denise Rudberg is dubbed the queen of Swedish chick lit, and she has scored commercial high points in Sweden as well as in other countries, not least in the US. A common denominator for most of her novels is the chronicling of a wealthy upper class. Financially independent persons have access to a closed world where common people seldom tread. Education and work are areas of fun and...

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  • It is 53 years today since Anders De la Motte was born.

    The Swedish author, and former police officer and security director, Anders de la Motte was born in Billesholm in north-western Skåne. He completed his schooling with a three-year Economics study course at the Tycho Brahe grammar school in Helsingborg, matriculating in 1990. The following year, he started his military service which included time in the military police, and he later became an ...

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Portrait of John Le Carré

Le Carré, John
1931 - 2020

Born David John Moore Cornwell in Poole, county of Dorset, England, John le Carré grew up in a troubled home. While his ...

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Författarporträtt av Khadra, Yasmina

Khadra, Yasmina
1955 -

Pseudonym used by the French-Algerian author Moharmed (sometimes spelled Mohammed) Moulessehoul, born at Kenadsa in the...

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Författarporträtt av Lethem, Jonathan

Lethem, Jonathan
1964 -

The extremely prolific American author Jonathan Allen Lethem is best known for his crime novels, many of them with science...

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Portrait of Graham Greene

Greene, Graham
1904 - 1991

Henry Graham Greene was a British author and journalist born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, who became one of the foremost...

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