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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 Grebe, Camilla](images/writer/6065/wm_BL_59945b764b9ba1c686ff2899f6d2f17950d4c245553da.jpg)
Grebe, Camilla
1968 -
The Swedish writer, Camilla Grebe (born Eriksson), has written a series of crime novels, both herself and in collaboration...
Further reading![Portrait image of Frank Heller](images/writer/736/61926d2766f4b2bea843bf1d7f60586d50cc80f7d0f6d.jpg)
Heller, Frank
1886 - 1947
Frank Heller is a pseudonym used by the Swedish author Gunnar Serner who was among the most popular authors of light...
Further reading![Portrait of Kathy Reichs](images/writer/3923/609a493b4a985b69160ed162d6ca8f1ee0a2b3e5e2dc3.jpg)
Reichs, Kathy
1948 -
Kathleen Joan Reichs, better known as Kathy Reichs, is a prominent anthropologist and professor at the Department of...
Further reading![Portrait image of Algernon Blackwood](images/writer/5263/6197aff112288c86333afea3dfc6180107397f4702464.jpg)
Blackwood, Algernon
1869 - 1951
The British author Algernon Henry Blackwood grew up in a strictly religious home in Kent. He soon abandoned his Christian...
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