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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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Bjerke, André
1918 - 1985
André Bjerke was a prominent figure on the Norwegian culture scene in the 1990s. He was an authority on Norwegian post-war ...
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Herbert, James
1943 - 2013
James Herbert from England was one of the best-selling and most praised authors of horror fiction in the late 20th century....
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Parker, T. Jefferson
1953 -
T. Jefferson "Jeff" Parker is an American author of police procedural novels. He grew up in Orange County, mainly in the...
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Kent, Hannah
1985 -
The Australian author Hannah Kent looks back on an idyllic childhood in Adelaide Hills. Together with her little sister,...
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