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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 Lapidus, Jens](images/writer/4553/wm_BL_4553_20160824145316_Large.jpg)
Lapidus, Jens
1974 -
Jens Lapidus grew up on the outskirts of Stockholm. His mother was a social worker and his father a journalist who, among...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Dahl, Kjell Ola](images/writer/3329/wm_BR_3329_20160316131529_Large.jpg)
Dahl, Kjell Ola
1958 -
Kjell Ola Dahl is a Norwegian author and farmer born in Gjøvik, Oppland, north of Oslo. He grew up in Kristiansand, Oslo ...
Further reading![Portrait of Barbara Nadel](images/writer/4356/609416b65697b832a95758bc0e55be8897a97370ae1d4.jpg)
Nadel, Barbara
1950 -
Barbara Nadel is a British author of detective stories. She has offered little information about her personal details....
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Claudel, Philippe](images/writer/4485/5f919eb6ca2661b9450c7ef0521ff968dfacb46d1f96c.jpg)
Claudel, Philippe
1962 -
French author and film director born in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe near Nancy where he still lives together with his wife and...
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