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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 image of Boris Akunin

Akunin, Boris
1956 -

Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was...

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Författarporträtt av Horst, Jørn Lier

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...

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Portrait of Pierre Lemaitre

Lemaitre, Pierre
1951 -

Pierre Lemaitre is one of France’s foremost noir novelists. The rather limited work of the award-winning author has been t...

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Herbert, James
1943 - 2013

James Herbert from England was one of the best-selling and most praised authors of horror fiction in the late 20th century....

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