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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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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...
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Grisham, John
1955 -
American author, lawyer and politician born in Jonesboro, Arkansas. His father was a construction worker who travelled...
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King, Stephen
1947 -
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and...
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Cole, Martina
1959 -
Martina Cole is one best-selling British authors of the 21st century; according to the mass media, only Harry Potter’s c...
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