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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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Författarporträtt av Davidsen, Leif

Davidsen, Leif
1950 -

Leif Davidsen in a Danish author and journalist born in Otterup on northern Funen. He grew up there and in the neighbouring...

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Författarporträtt av Christensen, Lars Saabye

Christensen, Lars Saabye
1953 -

Norwegian author who grew up in the Oslo suburb Skillebekk. He also lived for several years in Sortland in northern Norway,...

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Författarporträtt av Groner, Auguste

Groner, Auguste
1850 - 1929

Auguste Groner was an Austrian author, newspaper editor and pioneering woman author of crime fiction. Die Goldene Auguste...

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Portrait of John Verdon

Verdon, John
1942 -

John Verdon is an American crime writer, born in Bronx, New York. He was educated at Regis High School and Fordham...

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