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  • It is 71 years today since Lars Saabye Christensen was born.

    Norwegian author who grew up in the Oslo suburb Skillebekk. He also lived for several years in Sortland in northern Norway, two places he keeps returning to in his books. Christensen read Norwegian, literature, history of ideas and art at university. He now lives in Oslo.
    Lars Saabye Christensen is committed to help promote new talent in Norway. Between 1986 and the early nineties, he edited...

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  • It is 77 years today since Stephen King was born.

    Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and philanderer (King has a half-sister in Brazil), went through a number of aliases before he changed his surname to King. When Stephen was two years old, his father went out to by cigarettes and never came back. Stephen grew up in poor circumstances with his mother Ruth and his adopted...

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Författarporträtt av Sturgeon, Theodore

Sturgeon, Theodore
1918 - 1985

Theodore Sturgeon – he was born Edward Hamilton Waldo – was an American author of primarily science fiction and fantasy, but...

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Författarporträtt av Vigny, Alfred de

Vigny, Alfred de
1797 - 1863

Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny, was a French author born in the town of Loches near Tours in central France as the son of a...

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Författarporträtt av Bardin, John Franklin

Bardin, John Franklin
1916 - 1981

John Franklin Bardin was an author and journalist born in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father was a wealthy merchant and Bardin...

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Författarporträtt av Lethem, Jonathan

Lethem, Jonathan
1964 -

The extremely prolific American author Jonathan Allen Lethem is best known for his crime novels, many of them with science...

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