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  • It is 86 years today since Torgny Lindgren was born.

    The Swedish author Torgny Lindgren was born Gustav Torgny Lindgren at Raggsjö, Västerbotten County. In the 1970s, he moved to Vimmerby in Småland where he worked as a schoolteacher. Lindgren lived with his wife Stina at Tjärstad vicarage near Rimforsa, Östergötland County.
    He made his debut in 1965 with the poetry collection Plåtsax, hjärtats instrument. In the 1970s, he was a member of the Socia...

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  • It is 86 years today since Joyce Carol Oates was born.

    American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the state of New York. The family had a difficult economic situation and she spent most of her childhood and adolescence with her paternal grandparents on a farm in Erie. As a child, she liked to read and write; she got her first book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from her g...

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  • It is 67 years today since Alexandra Marinina was born.

    Alexandra Marinina is the pseudonym of Marina Anatolyevna Alekseyeva, a Russian author born in Lviv, western Ukraine. Her father, who died in 1973, was a police officer and her mother a lawyer. When she was still young, the family moved to Leningrad (now St.Petersburg) and then to Moscow. She attended an English-language school in Leningrad, and the Rimsky-Korsakov conservatory in Moscow. She...

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Författarporträtt av Phillips, Caryl

Phillips, Caryl
1958 -

British author born on St. Kitts in the West Indies from where his parents joined the millions that have crossed the...

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Författarporträtt av Rönkä, Matti

Rönkä, Matti
1959 -

The Finnish journalist and novelist Matti Rönkä was born and raised in Kuusjärvi – today part of Outokumpu– near the Russia...

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Författarporträtt av Almqvist, Carl Jonas Love

Almqvist, Carl Jonas Love
1793 - 1866

Swedish author, born in Stockholm and raised at the estate of Antuna some distance to the north of the city. The father...

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Portrait of Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

Le Clézio, Jean-Marie Gustave
1940 -

French author, born and raised in Nice. His parents were British citizens with roots in Bretagne and in Mauritius in the...

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