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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 image of Raymond Chandler

Chandler, Raymond
1888 - 1959

American detective writer, born in Chicago. He spent his early childhood in Wyoming and Nebraska. His parents divorced when...

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Författarporträtt av Mehlum, Jan

Mehlum, Jan
1945 -

Jan Mehlum is a Norwegian author and sociologist born in Tønsberg, Vestfold county. He has worked in management and teacher ...

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Portrait of Ricardo Piglia

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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Levin, Ira
1929 - 2007

The American novelist, playwright and scriptwriter Ira Levin was born in Bronx in New York; he was the only child in the...

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