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  • It is 67 years today since Peter Høeg was born.

    The Danish author Peter Høeg was born in Copenhagen and grew up in the inner-city district of Christianshavn. His mother taught Greek and Latin in upper-secondary school and his father was a lawyer. He attended that smart Bording free school, but was expelled in 1973 on account of his behaviour. He eventually earned his baccalaureate at the Fredriksberg upper-secondary school in 1976.
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Portrait image of Fredrik Skagen

Skagen, Fredrik
1936 - 2017

Fredrik Skagen is one of Norway’s most popular award-winning crime writers. He was born in Trondheim where he lived all his l...

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Författarporträtt av Wells, Carolyn

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...

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Portrait of Frances Fyfield

Fyfield, Frances
1948 -

Frances Fyfield is the pseudonym of the British crime-writer Frances Hegarty who grew up in Derbyshire, England. Her father...

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Författarporträtt av Bussi, Michel

Bussi, Michel
1965 -

Michel Bussi, born in northern France, is a well-known scientist, since the 1990s a professor of Geo-politics – a s...

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