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  • It is 50 years today since Jens Lapidus was born.

    Jens Lapidus grew up on the outskirts of Stockholm. His mother was a social worker and his father a journalist who, among other things, worked for an immigrant magazine. As a result, Lapidus became aware of how more marginalised people lived from a young age. He was a trouble-maker in secondary school; had it been today, he believes he would have been diagnosed with behavioural disorder. He went...

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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 Crichton, Michael

Crichton, Michael
1942 - 2008

The American author, physician, director and teacher John Michael Crichton was a remarkable person for several reasons: he...

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Författarporträtt av Camilleri, Andrea

Camilleri, Andrea
1925 - 2019

Italian author and theatre/film producer, born in the industrial town Porto Empedocle in Agrigento province on the south...

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Portrait image of Gillian Flynn

Flynn, Gillian
1971 -

Already as a child, the American author and journalist Gillian Flynn was fascinated by horror and crime. She read books...

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