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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 of Adrian McKinty

McKinty, Adrian
1968 -

Adrian McKinty was born in Belfast and grew up in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, where he attended...

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Portrait image of K. Arne Blom

Blom, K. Arne
1946 - 2021

The Swedish author K. (Karl) Arne Blom was born in Nässjö where he passed his baccalaureate in 1967. Later the same year, h...

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Författarporträtt av Izner, Claude

Izner, Claude
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Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefèvre, are the two sisters behind the pseudonym Claude Izner. Their father was a bookseller, a ...

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Portrait image of Alice LaPlante

LaPlante, Alice
1958 -

American author, journalist and teacher, who has written technical books in different subjects as well as psychological...

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