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It is 65 years today since Viveca Sten was born.
Viveca Bergstedt Sten grew up in Stockholm. She spent her summer breaks on the island of Sandhamn in the Stockholm archipelago where her family has owned a house since 1917 when her great grandparents acquired the Lagerta family estate from the son of the master pilot. She read and wrote from an early age, she edited the school magazine and at university she contributed to the law students’ m...
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It is 162 years today since Carolyn Wells was born.
Carolyn Wells was a best-selling American author of children’s and young adult books and mystery stories in the early 1900s. She was a successful editor of anthologies and a respected poet, and she also wrote copy for a few comic strips. Her popularity endures; her children’s and young adult stories as well as her poetry collections are still in print.
Her mystery stories are more uneven, how...
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Bjerke, André
1918 - 1985
André Bjerke was a prominent figure on the Norwegian culture scene in the 1990s. He was an authority on Norwegian post-war ...
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Kristensen, Tom
1955 -
Tom Kristensen is a Norwegian economist, engineer and author born in Tjøme, Vestfold county. He has won fame as a writer of ...
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Kepler, Lars
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Lars Kepler is the alias that the two writers and married couple Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril use when...
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Keating, H.R.F.
1926 - 2011
Henry Raymond Fitzwalter "Harry" Keating is a British author born at St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex. He was educated in the...
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