Andersson, Lena
1970 -

Swedish author, journalist and playwright who grew up in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta in a family belonging to what she...

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Rendell, Ruth
1930 - 2015

The British crime writer Ruth Rendell was born in London as Ruth Barbara Graseman. Her mother was of Scandinavian origin...

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Howard, Catherine Ryan
1982 -

Irish author, born in Cork and raised in the suburb of Grange. Catherine Ryan Howard decided at an early age to become an...

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Paasilinna, Arto
1942 - 2018

Arto Paasilinna was born in Kittilä in the Finnish part of Lapland. His father died from pulmonary tuberculosis at the age ...

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