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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 Alsterdal, Tove](images/writer/6004/wm_BR_6004_20150907104112_Large.jpg)
Alsterdal, Tove
1960 -
Swedish author, dramatist and journalist Tove Alsterdal has her roots in Norrbotten and Värmland. Her mother, sociologist ...
Further reading![Portrait image of Ross Macdonald](images/writer/1101/619ad928be96c31daadb761a710895637c7081f68d2e6.jpg)
Macdonald, Ross
1915 - 1983
Ross Macdonald is a pseudonym for the American-Canadian crime writer Kenneth Millar. He was born in Los Gatos, California,...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Dahl, Arne](images/writer/3077/wm_BR_5c7e9b6c3dd754382b4d30981310c146d21172017d789.jpg)
Dahl, Arne
1963 -
For a long time, there was speculation as to who could lie behind the crime-writer pseudonym Arne Dahl. Considering the...
Further reading![Portrait image of Andreas Norman](images/writer/6199/wm_BR_63501dfb514e203cee5868c6834fdc78c65e5b2001aa6.jpg)
Norman, Andreas
1972 -
Author Andreas Norman’s mother is the social anthropologist Karin Norman, and his father the psychoanalyst Johan Norman. At f...
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