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  • It is 75 years today since Ingrid Hedström was born.

    TThe Swedish journalist and author Ingrid Hedström were born in Söderhamn in the central Swedish province of Hälsingland, and then moved to Avesta in nearby Dalarna when she was five years old. She is said to be one of the 1960’s so-called "welfare-state princesses", meaning that she was the first in her family to graduate from high school. She completed her final exam at Avesta Grammar School in...

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Författarporträtt av Whitehead, Colson

Whitehead, Colson
1969 -

American writer Art Colson Chipp Whitehead spent his early years at 139th Riverside in Harlem, a tough place by his...

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Författarporträtt av Goddard, Robert

Goddard, Robert
1954 -

Robert Goddard is a popular, much-translated and lauded British thriller writer with an unusual and highly personal style....

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Författarporträtt av Dahl, Arne

Dahl, Arne
1963 -

For a long time, there was speculation as to who could lie behind the crime-writer pseudonym Arne Dahl. Considering the...

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Författarporträtt av Hellström, Börge

Hellström, Börge
1957 - 2017

Börge Hellström was a former criminal turned author. After a tough childhood he became an alcoholic and a drug addict, and e...

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