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It is 108 years today since Ulla Isaksson was born.
Ulla Isaksson was born in Stockholm as Ulla Margareta Lundberg in a family of comfortable means. She attended a secondary school for girls and read humanities in the equivalent of upper-secondary school. Her grandparents on her mother's side were members of the Mission Covenant Church, and she was active in the organisation until she was in her thirties. As a young woman she was interested in...
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It is 93 years today since Derek Raymond was born.
English author, who during a Bohemian and wandering life occupied himself with a number of different jobs and activities, a by-no-means small part of them criminal. This is also reflected in his books: he is known as a pioneer in the crime-literature sub-genre called ‘British noir’, and which is usually set in environments and among people at the bottom of society. The books have been criticised f...
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Turow, Scott
1949 -
Scott Frederick Turow is an American author born in Chicago, Illinois, where his father was working as a physicist. Both...
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Ball, Hugo
1886 - 1927
Hugo Ball was born in Pirmasens, Germany, to Catholic parents who were as poor as they were pious. He wanted to study, but...
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Muller, Marcia
1944 -
American detective story writer, born in Detroit, Michigan, in a family with great literary interests. She wrote her first...
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Akunin, Boris
1956 -
Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was...
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