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It is 86 years today since Torgny Lindgren was born.
The Swedish author Torgny Lindgren was born Gustav Torgny Lindgren at Raggsjö, Västerbotten County. In the 1970s, he moved to Vimmerby in Småland where he worked as a schoolteacher. Lindgren lived with his wife Stina at Tjärstad vicarage near Rimforsa, Östergötland County.
He made his debut in 1965 with the poetry collection Plåtsax, hjärtats instrument. In the 1970s, he was a member of the Socia... -
It is 86 years today since Joyce Carol Oates was born.
American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the state of New York. The family had a difficult economic situation and she spent most of her childhood and adolescence with her paternal grandparents on a farm in Erie. As a child, she liked to read and write; she got her first book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from her g...
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It is 67 years today since Alexandra Marinina was born.
Alexandra Marinina is the pseudonym of Marina Anatolyevna Alekseyeva, a Russian author born in Lviv, western Ukraine. Her father, who died in 1973, was a police officer and her mother a lawyer. When she was still young, the family moved to Leningrad (now St.Petersburg) and then to Moscow. She attended an English-language school in Leningrad, and the Rimsky-Korsakov conservatory in Moscow. She...
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![Författarporträtt av Sturgeon, Theodore](images/writer/6924/6924_20160913085638.jpg)
Sturgeon, Theodore
1918 - 1985
Theodore Sturgeon – he was born Edward Hamilton Waldo – was an American author of primarily science fiction and fantasy, but...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Brontë, Anne](images/writer/249/249_20140411154207_Large.jpg)
Brontë, Anne
1820 - 1849
Anne Brontë was the youngest and least known of the three Brontë sisters. She grew up together with her sisters Charlotte a...
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Thomas, Ross
1926 - 1995
Ross Thomas was an American author of crime fiction, journalist and PR councillor. His political thrillers have received...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Brink, André](images/writer/245/245_20140123072814_Large.jpg)
Brink, André
1935 - 2015
André Brink was a South-African author born in Vrede, the Orange Free State of South Africa. His father was a magistrate ...
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