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It is 131 years today since Dorothy L. Sayers was born.
English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and his wife Helen Leigh Sayers. When Dorothy L. (Leigh) Sayers was four years old, the family moved to Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire where the father was appointed pastor. The parents had cultural and linguistic interests, and regularly travelled with their daughter to...
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![Portrait of William Boyd](images/writer/224/604f9e9a4582b9f603d8122a0f4bc0e76460fbc6e3338.jpg)
Boyd, William
1952 -
The British author William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana. His father, a doctor, and his mother, a teacher, moved to The...
Further reading![Portrait of Domingo Villar](images/writer/6162/609a4a7f5e1b795f1407c80584d515e056077bfcda49d.jpg)
Villar, Domingo
1971 -
Domingo Villar is a Spanish novelist born in Vigo, Galicia. He now lives in Madrid where hosts a radio show about food....
Further reading![Portrait image of Josephine Tey](images/writer/1712/619adea8d793a2bb12f8e079164bca0870d208ec81d51.jpg)
Tey, Josephine
1896 - 1952
Josephine Tey (the author of popular mystery novels) and Gordon Daviot (a well-known English playwright between 1933 and...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Smith, Ernest](images/writer/5592/5592_20130216164336.jpg)
Smith, Ernest
1868 - 1942
Ernest Bramah, born Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author, numismatist and creator of two of the most original...
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