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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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![Portrait of Michael Dibdin](images/writer/394/60993f5530494e2925b3b98da22d4d4d3fe708a6247a3.jpg)
Dibdin, Michael
1947 - 2007
Michael Dibdin was a British crime writer born in Wolverhampton. His father was a teacher. The family moved to Northern...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Smirnoff, Karin](images/writer/7223/wm_BR_628766ab233da1af717e91e20c41fca9b45303cf80051.jpg)
Smirnoff, Karin
1964 -
Karin Smirnoff has the same name as August Strindberg’s daughter, dramatist and author Karin Smirnoff (1880-1973) who also w...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Walters, Minette](images/writer/1827/wm_BR_1827_20150410133647_Large.jpg)
Walters, Minette
1949 -
Minette Walters is an author of crime fiction born Minette Jebb in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. Her father w...
Further reading![Portrait of Jakob Arjouni](images/writer/3133/606f08223557b9bda1afdcac2bfc6c12deb91eaece43f.jpg)
Arjouni, Jakob
1964 - 2013
Pseudonym for the German author and dramatist Jakob Bothe. He was born as Jakob Michelsen in Frankfurt am Main as the son...
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