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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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Piglia, Ricardo
1941 - 2017
Argentinian novelist, critic, essayist and university lecturer born in the city of Adrogué 200 kilometres south of Buenos ...
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Ceder, Camilla
1976 -
Camilla Ceder grew up in Olofstorp near Gothenburg. She studied social work and psychotherapy and now lives in Gothenburg...
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Pears, Iain
1955 -
Iain Pears is a British author, art historian and journalist. He was born in Coventry where his father was a company...
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Corris, Peter
1942 - 2018
Peter Robert Corris was an Australian author, historian, journalist and pioneering author of crime fiction in Australia....
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