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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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Piñeiro, Claudia
1960 -
Argentinian author born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires. Claudia Piñeiro started reading social sciences, but she switched to ...
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Larsson, Åsa
1966 -
Swedish crime writer and former tax lawyer born in Uppsala. Both parents grew up near the city of Kiruna in the north of...
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Collins, Wilkie
1824 - 1889
The British author Wilkie Collins (William Wilkie Collins) wrote a series of extremely successful novels as well as a...
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McCaffrey, Anne
1926 - 2011
The American author Anne McCaffrey has gained great international popularity with stories that are a wilful mixture of SF...
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