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  • It is 75 years today since Ingrid Hedström was born.

    TThe Swedish journalist and author Ingrid Hedström were born in Söderhamn in the central Swedish province of Hälsingland, and then moved to Avesta in nearby Dalarna when she was five years old. She is said to be one of the 1960’s so-called "welfare-state princesses", meaning that she was the first in her family to graduate from high school. She completed her final exam at Avesta Grammar School in...

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Portrait image of Lynn Shepherd

Shepherd, Lynn
1964 -

The British author, Lynn Shepherd, attracted a great deal of attention in literary circles with her crime novels that...

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Författarporträtt av Bauer, Belinda

Bauer, Belinda
1962 -

As a child, the British author Belinda Bauer spent ten years in South Africa during apartheid. Her father was a dentist...

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Portrait of John Harvey

Harvey, John
1938 -

The British author, editor and teacher John Barton Harvey grew up in London where he attended St. Aloysius College. He...

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Författarporträtt av Davidsen, Leif

Davidsen, Leif
1950 -

Leif Davidsen in a Danish author and journalist born in Otterup on northern Funen. He grew up there and in the neighbouring...

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