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  • It is 75 years today since Ingrid Hedström was born.

    TThe Swedish journalist and author Ingrid Hedström were born in Söderhamn in the central Swedish province of Hälsingland, and then moved to Avesta in nearby Dalarna when she was five years old. She is said to be one of the 1960’s so-called "welfare-state princesses", meaning that she was the first in her family to graduate from high school. She completed her final exam at Avesta Grammar School in...

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Portrait of Lynda La Plante

La Plante, Lynda
1943 -

Lynda La Plante is a British author, television producer and actor born Lynda Titchmarsh in Formby near Liverpool. Her...

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Portrait of John Le Carré

Le Carré, John
1931 - 2020

Born David John Moore Cornwell in Poole, county of Dorset, England, John le Carré grew up in a troubled home. While his ...

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Portrait of Olga Tokarczuk

Tokarczuk, Olga
1962 -

Polish author, born in the little village Klenica in western Poland, where her parents were teachers at a residential...

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Portrait image of Paul Rosenhayn

Rosenhayn, Paul
1877 - 1929

German journalist and internationally acclaimed author of detective stories, best known for his more than forty...

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