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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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Gill, Barbara M.
1921 - 1995
Barbara Margaret Gill was a British author of crime fiction. She was born in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales. Little is known...
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Bradbury, Ray
1920 - 2012
The American author Ray Douglas Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, to an American father and a Swedish mother. The...
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Ekelöf, Gunnar
1907 - 1968
Swedish poet, born in Stockholm where he grew up in an upper-class family. The father worked as a stockbroker, but was...
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Norén, Lars
1944 - 2021
Swedish author, poet, and playwright, born in Stockholm. Lars Norén was raised partly in the province of Skåne (Scania). H...
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