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  • It is 65 years today since Viveca Sten was born.

    Viveca Bergstedt Sten grew up in Stockholm. She spent her summer breaks on the island of Sandhamn in the Stockholm archipelago where her family has owned a house since 1917 when her great grandparents acquired the Lagerta family estate from the son of the master pilot. She read and wrote from an early age, she edited the school magazine and at university she contributed to the law students’ m...

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  • It is 162 years today since Carolyn Wells was born.

    Carolyn Wells was a best-selling American author of children’s and young adult books and mystery stories in the early 1900s. She was a successful editor of anthologies and a respected poet, and she also wrote copy for a few comic strips. Her popularity endures; her children’s and young adult stories as well as her poetry collections are still in print.
    Her mystery stories are more uneven, how...

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Portrait image of Ira Levin

Levin, Ira
1929 - 2007

The American novelist, playwright and scriptwriter Ira Levin was born in Bronx in New York; he was the only child in the...

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Portrait of Michael Ende

Ende, Michael
1929 - 1995

Michael Ende was born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. His father was one of the first German surrealist painters, and...

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Författarporträtt av Vonnegut, Kurt

Vonnegut, Kurt
1922 - 2007

American author, born in Indianapolis, where both his father and grandfather were working as architects. Further back, the...

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Författarporträtt av Edelfeldt, Inger

Edelfeldt, Inger
1956 -

Inger Edelfeldt is a multi-award-winning author and illustrator born and raised in the Stockholm suburb of Hässelby. Her ...

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