Unsworth, Barry
1930 - 2012

The British author Barry Unsworth was born to a family of miners in County Durham, northeast England. They moved away from...

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Durbridge, Francis
1912 - 1998

The British crime writer Francis Durbridge was born in Hull in Yorkshire. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School in...

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Jungstedt, Mari
1962 -

Mari Jungstedt is a Swedish journalist, broadcaster and author born in Stockholm. Her parents were very young when they...

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Lang, Maria
1914 - 1991

Maria Lang is the pen name of the teacher and head mistress Dagmar (Maria) Lange, one of Sweden’s most popular, but also m...

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