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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 Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Pérez-Reverte, Arturo
1951 -

Spanish author born in Cartagena in the south-eastern part of the country. Between 1973 and 1994, Pérez-Reverte worked as a ...

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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 Bailey, H.C.

Bailey, H.C.
1878 - 1961

The British journalist and critic Henry Christopher Bailey is one of the five greatest crime novelists associated with the...

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Portrait image of Deon Meyer

Meyer, Deon
1958 -

Deon Meyer is something of a rarity in that he is a South African crime writer who has had his crime novels, written in...

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