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  • It is 67 years today since Peter Høeg was born.

    The Danish author Peter Høeg was born in Copenhagen and grew up in the inner-city district of Christianshavn. His mother taught Greek and Latin in upper-secondary school and his father was a lawyer. He attended that smart Bording free school, but was expelled in 1973 on account of his behaviour. He eventually earned his baccalaureate at the Fredriksberg upper-secondary school in 1976.
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Författarporträtt av Liffner, Eva-Marie

Liffner, Eva-Marie
1957 -

Eva-Marie Liffner is a Swedish author and journalist born in Gothenburg and raised in Frölunda in the 1950s, where she ...

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Portrait of Aaron Elkins

Elkins, Aaron
1935 -

Aaron Elkins is an American crime writer born in Brooklyn, New York. He read anthropology and psychology at Hunter College,...

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Portrait of Andrea Maria Schenkel

Schenkel, Andrea Maria
1962 -

The German author Andrea Maria Schenkel was born and raised in Regensburg. Her parents were civil servants. Her mother and,...

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Portrait image of Åsa Nilsonne

Nilsonne, Åsa
1949 -

Åsa Nilsonne is a Swedish psychiatrist, translator and crime writer. She was born in Stockholm, but as the daughter of a ...

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