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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 Horst, Jørn Lier](images/writer/6196/wm_BR_6196_20160316133456_Large.jpg)
Horst, Jørn Lier
1970 -
A Norwegian former police officer who in the 2000s became one of Norway’s most popular crime-fiction writers among adult as w...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Dunsany, Edward Plunkett](images/writer/6035/6035_20120730080433.jpg)
Dunsany, Edward Plunkett
1878 - 1957
The Irish author Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, was a major celebrity in the first half of the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Persson Giolito, Malin](images/writer/5105/wm_BR_5105_20160929012052_Large.jpg)
Persson Giolito, Malin
1969 -
When Malin Persson Giolito was still called only Persson, she grew up in Djursholm, Stockholm. Her mother, who was the...
Further reading![Portrait of Qiu Xiaolong](images/writer/4412/60995728af0d252bf0a88a2e9bb9b00a814402f412b1c.jpg)
Qiu Xiaolong
1953 -
Qiu Xiaolong is a Chinese author, poet, translator and scholar. He was born in Shanghai and grew up in post-revolution...
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