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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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Johnson, Eyvind
1900 - 1976
Swedish author, born in Svartbjörnsbyn in the province of Norrbotten. When his father, who had been working with ...
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Treat, Lawrence
1903 - 1998
Lawrence Treat was an American lawyer and author who started a trend in police procedural crime fiction that was later...
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Kazantzakis, Nikos
1883 - 1957
Nikos Kazantzakis was born in Megalokastro (present-day Heraklion) in Crete, which was still under Ottoman rule at the...
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Kutscher, Volker
1962 -
The German author Volker Kutscher was born in Lindlar and grew up in Wipperfürth near Köln (Cologne). He studied Germanic L...
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