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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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![Författarporträtt av Heidenstam, Verner von](images/writer/727/727_20121130152512.jpg)
Heidenstam, Verner von
1859 - 1940
Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam was born on the small Olshammar estate on the northern shore of Lake Vättern in Hammar, ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Seferis, Giorgos](images/writer/1529/1529_20120429105426.jpg)
Seferis, Giorgos
1900 - 1971
The first Nobel Prize laureate to come out of Greece was born Georgios Seferiades in Urla near Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey),...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Tagore, Rabindranath](images/writer/1701/5f72e74f9f5c01f8382e7092d76559f569710659788e5.jpg)
Tagore, Rabindranath
1861 - 1941
Rabindranath Tagore (Thakur in Bengali) was and still is India's most influential author. Not only was he a poet, novelist...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Freeman, R. Austin](images/writer/2643/2643.jpg)
Freeman, R. Austin
1862 - 1943
English author born in London as the youngest of five siblings. His father was an innkeeper who later trained as a tailor....
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