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It is 131 years today since Dorothy L. Sayers was born.
English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and his wife Helen Leigh Sayers. When Dorothy L. (Leigh) Sayers was four years old, the family moved to Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire where the father was appointed pastor. The parents had cultural and linguistic interests, and regularly travelled with their daughter to...
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![Författarporträtt av Ohlsson, Kristina](images/writer/5775/wm_BR_5b7aaf0012b76d382f88ab9a0af9bc361ee217a6d3904.jpg)
Ohlsson, Kristina
1979 -
The Swedish author Kristina Ohlsson was born and grew up in Kristianstad as one of six siblings. As a child she was sickly,...
Further reading![Portrait of Mo Hayder](images/writer/6003/609a9225eb8a7a596ab95a885bd09fcad18bc313200bf.jpg)
Hayder, Mo
1962 - 2021
The British thriller writer Mo Hayder, pen name for Clare Dunkel, grew up in Essex. She revolted against her academic...
Further reading![Portrait of Megan Abbott](images/writer/5819/603fbe84cefac339a0113b5b07764659af7cea2663257.jpg)
Abbott, Megan
1971 -
The American scholar and author Megan Abbott was born in Detroit and raised there and at Grosse Pointe, Michigan. She...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Zeh, Juli](images/writer/4108/wm_BR_4108_20160323145610_Large.jpg)
Zeh, Juli
1974 -
Juli Zeh is a German author born in Bonn. She studied law and literature in Passau and Leipzig and publishes short stories,...
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