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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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Groller, Balduin
1848 - 1916
At the end of the 19th century and early in the 20th century, Austrian author Adalbert Goldscheider wrote a large number or...
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French, Tana
1973 -
Crime writer and actress Tana French was born in Burlington, Vermont, USA. Her father was an economist and worked all...
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Turow, Scott
1949 -
Scott Frederick Turow is an American author born in Chicago, Illinois, where his father was working as a physicist. Both...
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King, Stephen
1947 -
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and...
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