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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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![Författarporträtt av Robinson, Peter](images/writer/2993/wm_BR_2993_20160824153335_Large.jpg)
Robinson, Peter
1950 - 2022
Peter Robinson is a Canadian author born in Castleford, Yorkshire, England. He was a wayward teenager with little interest...
Further reading![Portrait image of Sara Blædel](images/writer/4771/6220c91a1bdb97127328bc5e00834b4044b7e3803ab29.jpg)
Blædel, Sara
1964 -
The Danish journalist and author Sara Blædel spent her early life in the Copenhagen district of Østerbro. When she was a...
Further reading![Portrait of Julie Parsons](images/writer/3056/609419ce9d0b45180953b2621b06a6518a9851f9280ee.jpg)
Parsons, Julie
1951 -
Writer of detective stories Julie Parsons was born and grew up in New Zealand, to which her Irish parents had emigrated in...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Nesser, Håkan](images/writer/1240/wm_BR_5f68a2f5e5168c215ddc8c2f6bdc77055049ce52acf6b.jpg)
Nesser, Håkan
1950 -
Håkan Nesser was born in Elvesta Gård (manor) on the outskirts of Kumla. His father was a farmer, as were his family since t...
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