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  • It is 88 years today since Lars Gustafsson was born.

    The Swedish author Lars Gustafsson was born in Västerås where his father was a merchant. He passed his baccalaureate in 1955 and was awarded a Licentiate Degree from the University of Uppsala in 1961. From the 1960s onwards he was a public figure that often participated in the public debate. He was editor of the literary magazine BLM between 1962 and 1972 and book reviewer for the tabloid E...

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  • It is 67 years today since Peter Høeg was born.

    The Danish author Peter Høeg was born in Copenhagen and grew up in the inner-city district of Christianshavn. His mother taught Greek and Latin in upper-secondary school and his father was a lawyer. He attended that smart Bording free school, but was expelled in 1973 on account of his behaviour. He eventually earned his baccalaureate at the Fredriksberg upper-secondary school in 1976.
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Författarporträtt av Whitney, Phyllis A.

Whitney, Phyllis A.
1903 - 2008

Phyllis A. (Ayame) Whitney was born to American parents in Yokohama in Japan, where her father worked for an export...

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Författarporträtt av Rohmer, Sax

Rohmer, Sax
1883 - 1959

Pseudonym for the English author and journalist Arthur Henry Ward, who already as a teenager added Sarsfield as a last...

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Författarporträtt av Naumann, Cilla

Naumann, Cilla
1960 -

Cilla Naumann was born in Stockholm. During a period of her life she lived with her family in South-East Scania, but she...

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Författarporträtt av Orczy, Emmuska

Orczy, Emmuska
1865 - 1947

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi, or Emmuska, which she preferred to be called, was born in...

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