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It is 75 years today since Ingrid Hedström was born.
TThe Swedish journalist and author Ingrid Hedström were born in Söderhamn in the central Swedish province of Hälsingland, and then moved to Avesta in nearby Dalarna when she was five years old. She is said to be one of the 1960’s so-called "welfare-state princesses", meaning that she was the first in her family to graduate from high school. She completed her final exam at Avesta Grammar School in...
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Nilsonne, Åsa
1949 -
Åsa Nilsonne is a Swedish psychiatrist, translator and crime writer. She was born in Stockholm, but as the daughter of a ...
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George, Elizabeth
1949 -
Susan Elizabeth George was born in Warren, Ohio. Her family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1950, and Elizabeth...
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Corris, Peter
1942 - 2018
Peter Robert Corris was an Australian author, historian, journalist and pioneering author of crime fiction in Australia....
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Tokarczuk, Olga
1962 -
Polish author, born in the little village Klenica in western Poland, where her parents were teachers at a residential...
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