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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 Ketil Bjørnstad](images/writer/196/604fa006a4c282b602effc4d7ec68af870e637f15f528.jpg)
Bjørnstad, Ketil
1952 -
Norwegian author, pianist and composer born in Oslo. Ketil Bjørnstad studied for Robert Riefling and Amalie Christie. He ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Goddard, Robert](images/writer/3349/wm_BL_3349_20160419152018_Large.jpg)
Goddard, Robert
1954 -
Robert Goddard is a popular, much-translated and lauded British thriller writer with an unusual and highly personal style....
Further reading![Portrait image of Josephine Tey](images/writer/1712/619adea8d793a2bb12f8e079164bca0870d208ec81d51.jpg)
Tey, Josephine
1896 - 1952
Josephine Tey (the author of popular mystery novels) and Gordon Daviot (a well-known English playwright between 1933 and...
Further reading![Portrait of Lynda La Plante](images/writer/6940/60956339956a50f0c5bbe594fbcd31244b7efd8582002.jpg)
La Plante, Lynda
1943 -
Lynda La Plante is a British author, television producer and actor born Lynda Titchmarsh in Formby near Liverpool. Her...
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