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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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Portrait of Adrian McKinty

McKinty, Adrian
1968 -

Adrian McKinty was born in Belfast and grew up in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, where he attended...

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Författarporträtt av Parsons, Tony

Parsons, Tony
1953 -

English author and journalist, born and grew up as the only child in a working-class family in Romford, Essex. When Tony...

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Författarporträtt av Tursten, Helene

Tursten, Helene
1954 -

Helene Tursten was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is also the setting she has chosen for Detective Inspector Irene Huss....

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Författarporträtt av Keeler, Harry Stephen

Keeler, Harry Stephen
1890 - 1967

The American author Harry Stephen Keeler was one of a kind. He wrote some seventy novels that are a blend of crime fiction,...

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