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  • It is 116 years today since Ian Fleming was born.

    Ian Lancaster Fleming was an English author and journalist born in London. He created James Bond, code name 007 – one of the most famous fictional spies of the 20th century known from a great number of books, films, radio plays etc., only a small number of which were in fact written by Fleming. Some were a great deal better, but none has had the same impact.
    Fleming came from a wealthy and p...

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Författarporträtt av Amat, Nuria

Amat, Nuria
1950 -

Nuria (Núria in Catalan) Amat is a Catalan author born in Barcelona where she now lives. She has a degree in Spanish, she ...

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Författarporträtt av Alsterdal, Tove

Alsterdal, Tove
1960 -

Swedish author, dramatist and journalist Tove Alsterdal has her roots in Norrbotten and Värmland. Her mother, sociologist ...

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Hammett, Dashiell
1894 - 1961

American detective writer, born in St. Mary's County in Maryland. He grew up in Baltimore where his family moved when he...

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Författarporträtt av Bellow, Saul

Bellow, Saul
1915 - 2005

American author, born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, but mainly raised in Chicago, where his family moved in 1924. Saul Bellow...

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