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![Författarporträtt av Sigurðardóttir, Yrsa](images/writer/4943/wm_BR_4943_20141007134945_Large.jpg)
Sigurðardóttir, Yrsa
1963 -
The Icelandic author and civil engineer Yrsa Sigurðardóttir grew up in Reykjavik. She now lives in the suburb of S...
Further reading![Portrait of Kate Atkinson](images/writer/109/603e77d7183f4e0f66aff4fea55744f5da755a8b0a724.jpg)
Atkinson, Kate
1951 -
The British author Kate Atkinson was born in York, her father was a shopkeeper. She read English literature at Dundee...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av McDermid, Val](images/writer/1160/wm_BR_1160_20130821161551_Large.jpg)
McDermid, Val
1955 -
Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer born in Kirkcaldy, Fife. She attended Kirkcaldy High School where she was among a...
Further reading![Portrait of Dean R. Koontz](images/writer/956/60993cc2bd90d164892bafa5e7737a10d8201414d6d7e.jpg)
Koontz, Dean R.
1945 -
Dean Ray Koontz is an American author of suspense literature. He was born in Everett, Pennsylvania, and grew up in a...
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