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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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Fløgstad, Kjartan
1944 -
Norwegian author born in the industrial city of Sauda. He has worked at the smelting plant in Sauda and on a Norwegian...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Holst, Kirsten](images/writer/6501/6501_20150324110815_Large.jpg)
Holst, Kirsten
1936 - 2008
Kirsten Holst was a Danish author, teacher and editor known for her detective stories and young adult fiction. She was born...
Further reading![Portrait of Bill Pronzini](images/writer/4980/609950d9e9a0fe55a6a34b246b89a79694e7226c77a3c.jpg)
Pronzini, Bill
1943 -
The extremely prolific American author William John "Bill" Pronzini is the prize-winning author of over a hundred works of...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Vila-Matas, Enrique](images/writer/6277/6277_20140129155540.jpg)
Vila-Matas, Enrique
1948 -
Spanish author of essays, short stories and novels born in Barcelona, Catalonia. He studied law and journalism at...
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