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  • It is 65 years today since Viveca Sten was born.

    Viveca Bergstedt Sten grew up in Stockholm. She spent her summer breaks on the island of Sandhamn in the Stockholm archipelago where her family has owned a house since 1917 when her great grandparents acquired the Lagerta family estate from the son of the master pilot. She read and wrote from an early age, she edited the school magazine and at university she contributed to the law students’ m...

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  • It is 162 years today since Carolyn Wells was born.

    Carolyn Wells was a best-selling American author of children’s and young adult books and mystery stories in the early 1900s. She was a successful editor of anthologies and a respected poet, and she also wrote copy for a few comic strips. Her popularity endures; her children’s and young adult stories as well as her poetry collections are still in print.
    Her mystery stories are more uneven, how...

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Författarporträtt av Dahl, Arne

Dahl, Arne
1963 -

For a long time, there was speculation as to who could lie behind the crime-writer pseudonym Arne Dahl. Considering the...

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Portrait image of Deon Meyer

Meyer, Deon
1958 -

Deon Meyer is something of a rarity in that he is a South African crime writer who has had his crime novels, written in...

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Portrait of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

Vázquez Montalbán, Manuel
1939 - 2003

Spanish author, journalist, essayist and poet. Vázquez Montalbán was born in Barcelona the same year as General Franco came o...

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Portrait of Mario Puzo

Puzo, Mario
1920 - 1999

Mario Gianluigi Puzo was an American author born in a slum known as Hell’s Kitchen on Manhattan, New York. His parents were b...

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