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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 Edward D. Hoch

Hoch, Edward D.
1930 - 2008

The American crime writer Edward D. (Dentinger) Hoch was unique in the sense that he appears to be the only American crime...

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Författarporträtt av Ford, Richard

Ford, Richard
1944 -

American author born in Jackson, Mississippi. His father, Parker Carrol, was a travelling salesman, which meant that the...

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Portrait of Dean R. Koontz

Koontz, Dean R.
1945 -

Dean Ray Koontz is an American author of suspense literature. He was born in Everett, Pennsylvania, and grew up in a...

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Carlsson, Christoffer
1986 -

Christoffer Carlsson grew up a rather lonely child in the small community of Skedala "in the gap between Halmstad and...

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