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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 Bernuth, Christa](images/writer/4444/wm_BR_4444_20140320101226_Large.jpg)
Bernuth, Christa
1961 -
The German journalist and crime author Christa von Bernuth was born in Munich where she still lives. After attending...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Krabbé, Tim](images/writer/960/wm_BL_960_20161205103011_Large.jpg)
Krabbé, Tim
1943 -
Hans Maarten Timotheus Krabbé was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he still lives. His father, Maarten Krabbé, and h...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Hammesfahr, Petra](images/writer/3574/wm_BR_3574_20160323123513_Large.jpg)
Hammesfahr, Petra
1951 -
Petra Hammesfahr is an award-winning, bestselling German author of crime fiction. All her principal characters are women....
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Kallifatides, Theodor](images/writer/899/wm_BR_5a3a4d0f22d8b4b5bd4022376cc38b40bfe74f42bdea8.jpg)
Kallifatides, Theodor
1938 -
Theodor Kallifatides was born in the village of Molaoi in the Peloponnese in Greece. His father was an elementary school...
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