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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 image of Mickey Spillane

Spillane, Mickey
1918 - 2006

The American author Frank Morrison Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Irish Catholic father and Scottish...

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Författarporträtt av Harrison, Harry

Harrison, Harry
1925 - 2012

The Irish-American author and illustrator Harry (Henry Maxwell) Harrison wrote virtually only science fiction and fantasy....

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Författarporträtt av Cornwell, Patricia D.

Cornwell, Patricia D.
1956 -

The American crime writer Patricia Cornwell was born in Miami, Florida, as Patricia Carroll Daniels. After her parents’ d...

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Portrait of Gore Vidal

Vidal, Gore
1925 - 2012

The American novelist and essayist Gore Vidal was born at West Point, New York. He was originally christened Eugene Vidal,...

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