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It is 69 years today since Val McDermid was born.
Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer born in Kirkcaldy, Fife. She attended Kirkcaldy High School where she was among a group of pupils that participated in a controversial project for especially talented students based on IQ tests. When she was seventeen, she was the first student from a Scottish state school to be admitted to St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she graduated with a Bachelor o...
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![Författarporträtt av Ebersohn, Wessel](images/writer/431/431_20161020171312_Large.jpg)
Ebersohn, Wessel
1940 -
South African author and magazine editor who was a stubborn opponent of apartheid and was thus harassed by the authorities...
Further reading![Portrait image of Arthur Rimbaud](images/writer/1440/64a7bd384aae5953ed5422003e64188aa272bb48699aa.jpg)
Rimbaud, Arthur
1854 - 1891
French author born in the industrial city of Charleville near the Belgian border. Rimbaud was the youngest son of an army...
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Bussi, Michel
1965 -
Michel Bussi, born in northern France, is a well-known scientist, since the 1990s a professor of Geo-politics – a s...
Further reading![Portrait of Lin Anderson](images/writer/5364/5f5f2d3092fa69caef80d56307d14e04caf3cfa4d1709.jpg)
Anderson, Lin
1951 -
Lin (Linda) Anderson was born in Greenock, western Scotland. Her parents were of Scottish and Irish descent. Her father was...
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