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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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Akunin, Boris
1956 -
Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was...
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Mosley, Walter
1952 -
American author, born in the tough and run-down South Central district in Los Angeles. His mother had a Russian-Jewish...
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Glauser, Friedrich
1896 - 1938
The Swiss author Friedrich Glauser was born in Vienna. His mother was Austrian and his father was from Switzerland....
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Pamuk, Orhan
1952 -
Turkish author, born and grew up in Istanbul, Nisantasi, in an affluent middle-class family. The father was a civil...
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