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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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Ani, Friedrich
1959 -
Friedrich Ani was born in Kochel am See, Bavaria. His father was Syrian and his mother was born in Silesia. After...
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Oates, Joyce Carol
1938 -
American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the...
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Glauser, Friedrich
1896 - 1938
The Swiss author Friedrich Glauser was born in Vienna. His mother was Austrian and his father was from Switzerland....
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Edwardson, Åke
1953 -
Swedish author and journalist, born in Tranås and raised in Vrigstad and Sävsjö. Åke Edwardson studied history of lit...
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