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It is 133 years today since Pär Lagerkvist was born.
Swedish author, born in Växjö as the youngest of seven siblings. His father was a railway station supervisor, and Pär Lagerkvist grew up in an apartment above the railway station restaurant. There was a strong cohesion within his family. The family was influenced by the rural environment from which it originated, and a pious and conservative Christian faith prevailed in the home. There were only t...
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Guðmundsson, Einar Már
1954 -
The Icelandic author Einar Már Guðmundsson was born in Reykjavik. He read literature and history at university there and c...
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Hamilton, Steve
1961 -
The American crime-fiction writer Steve Hamilton was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in White Lake in the same...
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Castillo, Linda
1960 -
The American writer Linda Castillo first wrote a series of books on romance and relations, and then got her breakthrough...
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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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