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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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![Portrait image of Ruth Lillegraven](images/writer/6285/617158320e7b7fde288b0bc6b1f57bf3a090f53db28bc.jpg)
Lillegraven, Ruth
1978 -
Norwegian poet, novelist and author of books for children, Ruth Lillegraven was born in Granvin in Hardanger, and grew up...
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Beckett, Simon
1960 -
English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at h...
Further reading![Portrait of Gore Vidal](images/writer/1794/6037ecf51b12f82963c3a7f278acdf0298913a6f41dab.jpg)
Vidal, Gore
1925 - 2012
The American novelist and essayist Gore Vidal was born at West Point, New York. He was originally christened Eugene Vidal,...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Temple, Peter](images/writer/4719/wm_BR_4719_20141103113148_Large.jpg)
Temple, Peter
1946 - 2018
Peter Temple was born in South Africa, but left the country in 1980, deeply sickened by the white regime’s apartheid p...
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