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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 Gordimer, Nadine](images/writer/629/wm_BR_629_20160418173838_Large.jpg)
Gordimer, Nadine
1923 - 2014
South-African novelist born in Springs, now in the province of Gauteng, (part of what was formerly the Transvaal), not far...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Coleridge, Samuel Taylor](images/writer/336/336_20130712124343.jpg)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
1772 - 1834
The English poet and literary critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the son of a Devonshire clergyman. He attended Jesus...
Further reading![Portrait image of Ernest Hemingway](images/writer/742/640a3ec987099c6a7ad704df58971ce5c9597731a0edf.jpg)
Hemingway, Ernest
1899 - 1961
American author, born in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His father Clarence was a doctor and his mother Grace a...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Fossum, Karin](images/writer/558/wm_BR_558_20130529104954_Large.jpg)
Fossum, Karin
1954 -
The Norwegian author Karin Fossum was born in Sandefjord where she grew up in a small 1950s bungalow. Her mother was a...
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