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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 Camilleri, Andrea](images/writer/2816/5f88d2a5de6765d4a5061aeab5103a1bdcdf5aeeb2a60.jpg)
Camilleri, Andrea
1925 - 2019
Italian author and theatre/film producer, born in the industrial town Porto Empedocle in Agrigento province on the south...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Leblanc, Maurice](images/writer/1000/1000_20130109205703.jpg)
Leblanc, Maurice
1864 - 1941
Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was a French author born in Rouen, Normandy. His father was a shipowner. Leblanc did well at ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Wells, Carolyn](images/writer/6848/6848_20160219102031.jpg)
Wells, Carolyn
1862 - 1942
Carolyn Wells was a best-selling American author of children’s and young adult books and mystery stories in the early 1...
Further reading![Portrait image of Martin Holmén](images/writer/6297/6220da7f95eca951e98c129cd94fcb16d225134070d33.jpg)
Holmén, Martin
1974 -
Swedish author and teacher, was born in Eskilstuna and grew up in Krogstorp outside Sölvesborg, where he attended school. ...
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