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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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![Portrait of Domingo Villar](images/writer/6162/609a4a7f5e1b795f1407c80584d515e056077bfcda49d.jpg)
Villar, Domingo
1971 -
Domingo Villar is a Spanish novelist born in Vigo, Galicia. He now lives in Madrid where hosts a radio show about food....
Further reading![Portrait image of Ruth Lillegraven](images/writer/6285/617158320e7b7fde288b0bc6b1f57bf3a090f53db28bc.jpg)
Lillegraven, Ruth
1978 -
Norwegian poet, novelist and author of books for children, Ruth Lillegraven was born in Granvin in Hardanger, and grew up...
Further reading![Portrait of Jasper Fforde](images/writer/4660/6074985b1c380fbb4eea293544b725761e20c9c44cbc0.jpg)
Fforde, Jasper
1961 -
Jasper Fforde is a British author. He grew up in London and Wales. His father was an economist who was Chief Cashier of the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Clark, Mary Higgins](images/writer/325/5f919a9c74b19e387987fb8fb53281105d63c684000e5.jpg)
Clark, Mary Higgins
1927 - 2020
Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney, who publishes her work as Mary Higgins Clark, was born in New York on...
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