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![Författarporträtt av Eco, Umberto](images/writer/433/wm_BR_433_20141209163010_Large.jpg)
Eco, Umberto
1932 - 2016
Umberto Eco was an Italian author, literary scholar, historian and philosopher born in Alessandria in Piedmont. His surname...
Further reading![Portrait image of Peter (f. 1947) Abrahams](images/writer/4469/619780930854dcf1b1bf7b4bd6991d74e43c84b17f8d3.jpg)
Abrahams, Peter (1947-)
1947 -
Peter Abrahams is an American author born in Boston, Massachusetts, where he also grew up. Summer holidays were spent in...
Further reading![Portrait of Stieg Trenter](images/writer/1746/5f6cb03d81edc5364d44ad24b89b39b4fb3ea2ff3e0b1.jpg)
Trenter, Stieg
1914 - 1967
Stieg Ivar Trenter, born Stig Ivar Johansson, grew up in Farsta, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. His father owned a general...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Fossum, Karin](images/writer/558/wm_BR_558_20130529104954_Large.jpg)
Fossum, Karin
1954 -
The Norwegian author Karin Fossum was born in Sandefjord where she grew up in a small 1950s bungalow. Her mother was a...
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