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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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![Författarporträtt av Salinger, J.D.](images/writer/1487/1487_20140716103641.jpg)
Salinger, J.D.
1919 - 2010
American author born in New York to a successful Jewish lawyer and cheese importer, and his Scottish-Irish wife. The family...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Flaubert, Gustave](images/writer/536/536_20120502100336.jpg)
Flaubert, Gustave
1821 - 1880
The French author Gustave Flaubert, the son of a prominent surgeon, grew up in Rouen. Both his parents were atheists, and,...
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Alexievich, Svetlana
1948 -
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ukraine three years after the Second World War. She grew up in a village in Belorussia...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av García Márquez, Gabriel](images/writer/593/6035102528344d88448a76d2f088d122a0f930fbfa7e9.jpg)
García Márquez, Gabriel
1927 - 2014
Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, a small town in the tropical parts of northern Colombia. Here he mainly grew u...
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