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It is 65 years today since Viveca Sten was born.
Viveca Bergstedt Sten grew up in Stockholm. She spent her summer breaks on the island of Sandhamn in the Stockholm archipelago where her family has owned a house since 1917 when her great grandparents acquired the Lagerta family estate from the son of the master pilot. She read and wrote from an early age, she edited the school magazine and at university she contributed to the law students’ m...
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It is 162 years today since Carolyn Wells was born.
Carolyn Wells was a best-selling American author of children’s and young adult books and mystery stories in the early 1900s. She was a successful editor of anthologies and a respected poet, and she also wrote copy for a few comic strips. Her popularity endures; her children’s and young adult stories as well as her poetry collections are still in print.
Her mystery stories are more uneven, how...
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![Författarporträtt av Restrepo, Laura](images/writer/5171/5171_20161128102243_Large.jpg)
Restrepo, Laura
1950 -
Laura Restrepo is a Latin-American journalist and author born in Bogotá, Colombia. She was the elder of two sisters who ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Bradley, Marion Zimmer](images/writer/230/230_20140126095359.jpg)
Bradley, Marion Zimmer
1930 - 1999
The science fiction and fantasy author Marion Eleanor Zimmer was born in East Greenbush, near Albany in New York. As a...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Sandemose, Aksel](images/writer/1501/1501.jpg)
Sandemose, Aksel
1899 - 1965
Aksel Sandemose was born as Axel Nielsen, in Nykøbing on the island of Mors in Denmark. His mother was Norwegian, his ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Hagerfors, Lennart](images/writer/682/wm_BR_682_20160808193241_Large.jpg)
Hagerfors, Lennart
1946 -
Olof Lennart Hagerfors' parents Maja and Sven were both missionaries in the former Belgian Congo, now the Democratic...
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