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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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Blunt, Giles
1952 -
Giles Blunt is a Canadian author, born in North Bay, Ontario, to English parents. He attended Scollard Hall, a Catholic...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Kristensen, Tom](images/writer/6744/wm_BR_6744_20160316134200_Large.jpg)
Kristensen, Tom
1955 -
Tom Kristensen is a Norwegian economist, engineer and author born in Tjøme, Vestfold county. He has won fame as a writer of ...
Further reading![Portrait image of Eric Ambler](images/writer/50/6197862993aee1be23c4d40bafbfd9b2da2f1535c0e68.jpg)
Ambler, Eric
1909 - 1998
Eric Clifford Ambler was a British author and playwright born in London. His parents were music hall artists, and at the...
Further reading![Portrait image of Christoffer Carlsson](images/writer/5787/wm_BR_653fed8d7313ece373823773649fc76366a9583336e6a.jpg)
Carlsson, Christoffer
1986 -
Christoffer Carlsson grew up a rather lonely child in the small community of Skedala "in the gap between Halmstad and...
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