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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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![Portrait image of Curtis Sittenfeld](images/writer/4382/6409ea6f643c19356420f39668a4897b508f5ba334dff.jpg)
Sittenfeld, Curtis
1975 -
Curtis Sittenfeld was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, as the second oldest of four siblings. Her mother taught history of...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Grossman, David](images/writer/652/wm_BR_652_20150413143159_Large.jpg)
Grossman, David
1954 -
David Grossman is an Israeli author and journalist born in Jerusalem to Polish Jewish parents. His father, Yitzhak...
Further reading![Portrait of Väinö Linna](images/writer/1056/1056_20120418143826.jpg)
Linna, Väinö
1920 - 1992
Finnish author born in Urjala as the seventh child in a working class family of ten children. His father, a butcher, died...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Dahl, Arne](images/writer/3077/wm_BR_5c7e9b6c3dd754382b4d30981310c146d21172017d789.jpg)
Dahl, Arne
1963 -
For a long time, there was speculation as to who could lie behind the crime-writer pseudonym Arne Dahl. Considering the...
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