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It is 165 years today since Arthur Conan Doyle was born.
Scottish author with Irish ancestry, born in Edinburgh. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, worked as a civil servant, but was also a painter and illustrator. He was sickly, become seriously alcoholic over the years and was admitted into psychiatric care in 1885. He died in 1893. It was Arthur’s mother, Mary, born Foley, who instead held the family together, struggling to give her son a good e...
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It is 75 years today since Aino Trosell was born.
Trosell is a Swedish writer, born in the town of Malung where she grew up in a blue-collar family. In 1967, Aino Trosell moved to Gothenburg where she combined her high school studies with work at a psychiatric institution and a tobacco company. After graduating with a Bachelor of Social Services from the Social Work College in 1974, she took on employment as a social worker, but found the job...
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Perec, Georges
1936 - 1982
George Perec's Jewish parents emigrated from Poland to France in the 1920s. His father served in the war and was killed in...
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Thomas, Ross
1926 - 1995
Ross Thomas was an American author of crime fiction, journalist and PR councillor. His political thrillers have received...
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Lehtolainen, Leena
1964 -
Leena Katriina Lehtolainen is a Finnish author. She was born in Vesanto and grew up in Outokumpu, Northern Karelia....
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Norén, Lars
1944 - 2021
Swedish author, poet, and playwright, born in Stockholm. Lars Norén was raised partly in the province of Skåne (Scania). H...
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