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  • It is 88 years today since Lars Gustafsson was born.

    The Swedish author Lars Gustafsson was born in Västerås where his father was a merchant. He passed his baccalaureate in 1955 and was awarded a Licentiate Degree from the University of Uppsala in 1961. From the 1960s onwards he was a public figure that often participated in the public debate. He was editor of the literary magazine BLM between 1962 and 1972 and book reviewer for the tabloid E...

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  • It is 67 years today since Peter Høeg was born.

    The Danish author Peter Høeg was born in Copenhagen and grew up in the inner-city district of Christianshavn. His mother taught Greek and Latin in upper-secondary school and his father was a lawyer. He attended that smart Bording free school, but was expelled in 1973 on account of his behaviour. He eventually earned his baccalaureate at the Fredriksberg upper-secondary school in 1976.
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Författarporträtt av Jansson, Tove

Jansson, Tove
1914 - 2001

Finland-Swedish author and visual artist. Tove Jansson was born and grew up in an artist home in Helsinki. Her home...

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Författarporträtt av Sayers, Dorothy L.

Sayers, Dorothy L.
1893 - 1957

English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir...

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Författarporträtt av Kelly, Jim

Kelly, Jim
1957 -

English author and journalist, born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, approximately 20 km north of London. His father, Brian B....

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Författarporträtt av Faulkner, William

Faulkner, William
1897 - 1962

In reality William Cuthbert Falkner, American author, born in New Albany, Mississippi but raised mainly in Oxford in the...

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