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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 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 Robert van Gulik](images/writer/662/618d33b1978b69da6979a6c6c6fc5447d64a72c32d35e.jpg)
Gulik, Robert van
1910 - 1967
Robert Hans van Gulik was born in Zutphen, the Netherlands, and grew up in Batavia (now Jakarta) in the former Dutch East...
Further reading![Portrait image of Camilla Ceder](images/writer/5238/6266ceb00c103fe564676617ca756c36307bcb860bc6a.jpg)
Ceder, Camilla
1976 -
Camilla Ceder grew up in Olofstorp near Gothenburg. She studied social work and psychotherapy and now lives in Gothenburg...
Further reading![Portrait of T. Jefferson Parker](images/writer/3048/60903fffaada074f45ed4aeeb8f3e7f90313623e4142b.jpg)
Parker, T. Jefferson
1953 -
T. Jefferson "Jeff" Parker is an American author of police procedural novels. He grew up in Orange County, mainly in the...
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