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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 Rivas, Manuel](images/writer/6409/wm_BR_6409_20141106164659_Large.jpg)
Rivas, Manuel
1957 -
Manuel Rivas is a Spanish novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and journalist born in La Coruña, Galicia in northwest ...
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 of Frances Fyfield](images/writer/583/603e7ddac0c59b4fb42cfffbdb6171110734c5d5849d4.jpg)
Fyfield, Frances
1948 -
Frances Fyfield is the pseudonym of the British crime-writer Frances Hegarty who grew up in Derbyshire, England. Her father...
Further reading![Portrait of William Boyd](images/writer/224/604f9e9a4582b9f603d8122a0f4bc0e76460fbc6e3338.jpg)
Boyd, William
1952 -
The British author William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana. His father, a doctor, and his mother, a teacher, moved to The...
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