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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 Larsson, Åsa

Larsson, Åsa
1966 -

Swedish crime writer and former tax lawyer born in Uppsala. Both parents grew up near the city of Kiruna in the north of...

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Författarporträtt av Khadra, Yasmina

Khadra, Yasmina
1955 -

Pseudonym used by the French-Algerian author Moharmed (sometimes spelled Mohammed) Moulessehoul, born at Kenadsa in the...

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Portrait image of Raymond Chandler

Chandler, Raymond
1888 - 1959

American detective writer, born in Chicago. He spent his early childhood in Wyoming and Nebraska. His parents divorced when...

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Portrait of Robert Ludlum

Ludlum, Robert
1927 - 2001

The American thriller writer, theatre producer and actor Robert Ludlum were born in New York, but his family moved to New...

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