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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 Gavin Lyall

Lyall, Gavin
1932 - 2003

Gavin Tudor Lyall was a British author of espionage thrillers. He was born in Birmingham, England, where he attended the...

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Portrait of James McClure

McClure, James
1939 - 2006

The journalist and author James "Jim" McClure’s Scottish parents left for South Africa in 1930, and he was subsequently b...

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Portrait of Maureen O'Brien

O'Brien, Maureen
1943 -

Maureen O’Brien is an English actress and author from Merseyside, United Kingdom. She was born in Liverpool, where she l...

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Carlsson, Christoffer
1986 -

Christoffer Carlsson grew up a rather lonely child in the small community of Skedala "in the gap between Halmstad and...

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