Murdoch, Iris
1919 - 1999

The British author and philosopher Jean Iris Murdoch was of both English and Irish stock. She was born in Dublin to...

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Spain, Jo
1979 -

The Irish author Joanne ‘Jo’ Spain was born into a working-class family in the little notorious residential district of Bel...

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Cody, Liza
1944 -

Pseudonym for Liza Nassim, English crime fiction writer, born in London where she grew up. She had problems in school – it l...

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Grimsrud, Beate
1963 - 2020

The Norwegian novelist, playwright and filmmaker Beate Grimsrud was born in Bærum, a suburb of Oslo, where she grew up with ...

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