-
It is 131 years today since Dorothy L. Sayers was born.
English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and his wife Helen Leigh Sayers. When Dorothy L. (Leigh) Sayers was four years old, the family moved to Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire where the father was appointed pastor. The parents had cultural and linguistic interests, and regularly travelled with their daughter to...
-
It is 159 years today since William Butler Yeats was born.
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin to an Anglo-Irish family, but he spent most of his life in England and France. His father was a successful portrait painter, and the young Yeats intended to follow in his footsteps. He attended the School of Art in Dublin, but after three years he abandoned art for literature.
He published his first poetry collection, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other...
Sample of Authors
![Författarporträtt av Marías, Javier](images/writer/3224/wm_BR_3224_20160404172532_Large.jpg)
Marías, Javier
1951 - 2022
Spanish author, translator and publisher born in Madrid. His mother was a teacher; his father, Julián Marías, was a r...
Further reading
Le Carré, John
1931 - 2020
Born David John Moore Cornwell in Poole, county of Dorset, England, John le Carré grew up in a troubled home. While his ...
Further reading![Portrait of Peter Corris](images/writer/6766/609a8cdf851ac87d6bb56ffa11c19228e8fa95621be7d.jpg)
Corris, Peter
1942 - 2018
Peter Robert Corris was an Australian author, historian, journalist and pioneering author of crime fiction in Australia....
Further reading![Portrait image of Kerstin Ekman](images/writer/459/wm_BR_459_20150907133556_Large.jpg)
Ekman, Kerstin
1933 -
Kerstin Lillemor Ekman (born Hjort) is one of Sweden's foremost living novelists. She was born in Finspång and grew up in ...
Further reading