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It is 131 years today since Dorothy L. Sayers was born.
English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and his wife Helen Leigh Sayers. When Dorothy L. (Leigh) Sayers was four years old, the family moved to Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire where the father was appointed pastor. The parents had cultural and linguistic interests, and regularly travelled with their daughter to...
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![Författarporträtt av Stribling, T.S.](images/writer/2436/5a8ae9784d74bb4bff173185df090128ec9062b811329.jpg)
Stribling, T.S.
1881 - 1965
The American author T.S. (Thomas Sigismund) Stribling was born in the little town of Clifton in Tennessee. His father had...
Further reading![Portrait of Sue Grafton](images/writer/634/5f649af008445e48c54a34395326d2bee96a94e75bd8f.jpg)
Grafton, Sue
1940 - 2017
Sue Taylor Grafton was an American author of detective novels born in Louisville, Kentucky. Her father, Cornelius Warren...
Further reading![Portrait image of Pepetela](images/writer/2846/5b56d94f1aab6eb14ea46568c8581b90e0e94cfc9fb1d.jpg)
Pepetela
1941 -
His full name is Artur Carlos Mauricio Pestana dos Santos, an Angolan author, born in the coastal town of Benguela. He took...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Sundstøl, Vidar](images/writer/6742/wm_BR_6742_20160316144715_Large.jpg)
Sundstøl, Vidar
1963 -
Vidar Sundstøl is a Norwegian author of crime fiction. He was born and raised at Vøllestad in the municipality of D...
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