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It is 131 years today since Dorothy L. Sayers was born.
English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and his wife Helen Leigh Sayers. When Dorothy L. (Leigh) Sayers was four years old, the family moved to Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire where the father was appointed pastor. The parents had cultural and linguistic interests, and regularly travelled with their daughter to...
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It is 159 years today since William Butler Yeats was born.
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin to an Anglo-Irish family, but he spent most of his life in England and France. His father was a successful portrait painter, and the young Yeats intended to follow in his footsteps. He attended the School of Art in Dublin, but after three years he abandoned art for literature.
He published his first poetry collection, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other...
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Cela, Camilo José
1916 - 2002
Spanish author, born in El Padrón, a small village in the province of La Coruña in northwestern Spain. His father, Camilo, w...
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Khemiri, Jonas Hassen
1978 -
Jonas Hassen Khemiri was born in Stockholm. After he finished school he attended the Stockholm School of Economics, he has...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Hanshew, T.W.](images/writer/5523/5523_20161106080742.jpg)
Hanshew, T.W.
1857 - 1914
An American author, journalist and actor, born in Brooklyn, New York. Not much is known about his private life and early...
Further reading![Portrait of Carol O'Connell](images/writer/5228/609a9e9201183b5cdf1c4a7d0b48f6a99f9c195c37afe.jpg)
O'Connell, Carol
1947 -
Carol O’Connel is an American author and artist best known for her books about the ruthless hardboiled detective Kathleen "...
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