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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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![Författarporträtt av Nesbø, Jo](images/writer/2768/wm_BR_5dcd74f924c12eff3347da340230ac74efcecebc0a15c.jpg)
Nesbø, Jo
1960 -
The Norwegian, Jo Nesbø, is one of Norway’s most appreciated and successful crime writers. He was born in Oslo as Jon Ne...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Krabbé, Tim](images/writer/960/wm_BL_960_20161205103011_Large.jpg)
Krabbé, Tim
1943 -
Hans Maarten Timotheus Krabbé was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he still lives. His father, Maarten Krabbé, and h...
Further reading![Portrait image of Hannah Kent](images/writer/7132/63039ff3bf590769aa16c1ebb7d63d79681cf085b3a23.jpg)
Kent, Hannah
1985 -
The Australian author Hannah Kent looks back on an idyllic childhood in Adelaide Hills. Together with her little sister,...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Jungstedt, Mari](images/writer/3602/wm_BL_3602_20160928195235_Large.jpg)
Jungstedt, Mari
1962 -
Mari Jungstedt is a Swedish journalist, broadcaster and author born in Stockholm. Her parents were very young when they...
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