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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 Christensen, Lars Saabye](images/writer/320/wm_BR_5d80d96897fd3b16ac1d2ff379fb3b3da54ae0b87def8.jpg)
Christensen, Lars Saabye
1953 -
Norwegian author who grew up in the Oslo suburb Skillebekk. He also lived for several years in Sortland in northern Norway,...
Further reading![Portrait image of Dennis Lehane](images/writer/3132/626839fff3b6f2fd32432ded9df22194f36554399ade1.jpg)
Lehane, Dennis
1966 -
The American crime writer Dennis Lehane grew up in an Irish family as the youngest of five children in Dorchester on the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Bakkeid, Heine](images/writer/7383/wm_BR_5d9b217e51749c4bc71735056610d67a7be326474e0c1.jpg)
Bakkeid, Heine
1974 -
Heine Bakkeid was born in Gratangen in Troms in northern Norway. He grew up there and in Kvæfjord outside Harstad. Heine ...
Further reading![Portrait of J.K. Rowling](images/writer/2653/609a52c959173b12e3544e0663bb657eeb8c87bd904c6.jpg)
Rowling, J.K.
1965 -
The British writer, J.K. Rowling, was born as Joanne Rowling in Yate in Gloucestershire, England. As an adult, she added...
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