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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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Niemi, Mikael
1959 -
Swedish author, born and raised in Pajala in Tornedalen, near the Finnish border. His grandmother was Saami and his father...
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Bjørnstad, Ketil
1952 -
Norwegian author, pianist and composer born in Oslo. Ketil Bjørnstad studied for Robert Riefling and Amalie Christie. He ...
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Spillane, Mickey
1918 - 2006
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Beckett, Simon
1960 -
English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at h...
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