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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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Portrait of Robert Harris

Harris, Robert
1957 -

Robert Dennis Harris is a British author born in Nottingham where his father worked at a printing plant. When he was very...

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Portrait of Pierre Lemaitre

Lemaitre, Pierre
1951 -

Pierre Lemaitre is one of France’s foremost noir novelists. The rather limited work of the award-winning author has been t...

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Portrait of Alistair MacLean

MacLean, Alistair
1922 - 1987

The Scottish author Alistair Stuart MacLean was born in Shettleston, Glasgow, in a Gaelic-speaking family as Alasdair...

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Författarporträtt av Cornwell, Patricia D.

Cornwell, Patricia D.
1956 -

The American crime writer Patricia Cornwell was born in Miami, Florida, as Patricia Carroll Daniels. After her parents’ d...

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