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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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Portrait of Guðbergur Bergsson

Bergsson, Guðbergur
1932 - 2023

Guðbergur Bergsson used to say that he comes from Grindavik, not from Iceland. Grindavik is a small Icelandic fishing ...

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Författarporträtt av Cheever, John

Cheever, John
1912 - 1982

American author born in Quincy, Massachusetts. Cheever’s father owned a shoe factory, but he fell on hard times in the f...

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Författarporträtt av Hughes, Ted

Hughes, Ted
1930 - 1998

English poet born in Mytholmroyd in the West Riding of Yorkshire. When he was seven years old, the family moved to...

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Författarporträtt av Tournier, Michel

Tournier, Michel
1924 - 2016

Michel Edouard Tournier was born in Paris. His parents met at the Sorbonne, where they both studied German. For this...

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