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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 Lasdun, James](images/writer/6240/wm_BR_6240_20130916142127_Large.jpg)
Lasdun, James
1958 -
English author and poet, born and brought up in London, but has lived in the USA since 1986. James Lasdun gained a B.A....
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Allen, Grant
1848 - 1899
Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen was a British philosopher, natural scientist and journalist. His support for evolutionary...
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Pattison, Eliot
1951 -
The American author and lawyer, Joseph Eliot Pattison, was born in Philadelphia. He grew up on a farm run by his father;...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Mankell, Henning](images/writer/1122/wm_BR_1122_20160427181840_Large.jpg)
Mankell, Henning
1948 - 2015
Henning Georg Mankell was a Swedish playwright and author. From the 1990s onwards, he won international renown for his...
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