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  • It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.

    Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...

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Portrait of Graham Greene

Greene, Graham
1904 - 1991

Henry Graham Greene was a British author and journalist born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, who became one of the foremost...

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Författarporträtt av Sayers, Dorothy L.

Sayers, Dorothy L.
1893 - 1957

English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir...

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Författarporträtt av Horst, Jørn Lier

Horst, Jørn Lier
1970 -

A Norwegian former police officer who in the 2000s became one of Norway’s most popular crime-fiction writers among adult as w...

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Portrait of Andrew Taylor

Taylor, Andrew
1951 -

The British author Andrew John Robert Taylor was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire and grew up in East Anglia. He attended...

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