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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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![Författarporträtt av Green, A.K.](images/writer/4702/4702.jpg)
Green, A.K.
1846 - 1935
The American author A.K. (Anna Katharine) Green pioneered the crime writing genre, and many of her novels have been...
Further reading![Portrait of Olga Tokarczuk](images/writer/3190/609426f0149b572a6936d1642e0238cb5e140d8a0d137.jpg)
Tokarczuk, Olga
1962 -
Polish author, born in the little village Klenica in western Poland, where her parents were teachers at a residential...
Further reading![Portrait image of Frederick Forsyth](images/writer/557/wm_BR_557_20140127145033_Large.jpg)
Forsyth, Frederick
1938 -
Frederick Forsyth is a major author of political thrillers. He was born in Ashford, Kent, England, as the only child in a...
Further reading![Portrait image of Johan Theorin](images/writer/4635/wm_BR_4635_20140210104321_Large.jpg)
Theorin, Johan
1963 -
Johan Theorin is a Swedish author and journalist. He was born in Gothenburg and grew up in Nora, where he moved with his...
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