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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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Clark, Mary Higgins
1927 - 2020
Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney, who publishes her work as Mary Higgins Clark, was born in New York on...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av O'Brien, Flann](images/writer/1289/1289_20131126110358.jpg)
O'Brien, Flann
1911 - 1966
Flann O'Brien was born as Brian O Nuallain (Brian O'Nolan) in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Brian was the third of...
Further reading![Portrait image of Wole Soyinka](images/writer/1607/wm_BR_652404666aa07d9e6f569e1625141268f90078d94ba85.jpg)
Soyinka, Wole
1934 -
Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka (Wole Soyinka) was born in Abeokuta, West Nigeria, during British colonial rule. His father was...
Further reading![Portrait of Bernard-Henri Lévy](images/writer/1021/603799294712ad3ea0d58ff6f7c5c0acb0f97943b64e8.jpg)
Lévy, Henri-Bernard
1948 -
French author and philosopher born in Béni Saf, Algeria. His father, a member of the French Jewish community, came from a ...
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