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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 Mishani, Dror](images/writer/6264/wm_BR_6264_20160323130720_Large.jpg)
Mishani, Dror
1975 -
Dror Mishani is an Israeli crime writer, born and raised in the Tel Aviv suburb of Holon. He is also a translator, literary...
Further reading![Portrait of Kathy Reichs](images/writer/3923/609a493b4a985b69160ed162d6ca8f1ee0a2b3e5e2dc3.jpg)
Reichs, Kathy
1948 -
Kathleen Joan Reichs, better known as Kathy Reichs, is a prominent anthropologist and professor at the Department of...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Auster, Paul](images/writer/118/wm_BR_59b263c5af4b1d36b22351f2bd965e2c5f864ceaba024.jpg)
Auster, Paul
1947 - 2024
American author from a Jewish family, born in Newark, New Jersey. His parents, Queenie and Samuel Auster, came from Poland....
Further reading![Portrait of Olga Tokarczuk](images/writer/3190/609426f0149b572a6936d1642e0238cb5e140d8a0d137.jpg)
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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