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  • It is 116 years today since Ian Fleming was born.

    Ian Lancaster Fleming was an English author and journalist born in London. He created James Bond, code name 007 – one of the most famous fictional spies of the 20th century known from a great number of books, films, radio plays etc., only a small number of which were in fact written by Fleming. Some were a great deal better, but none has had the same impact.
    Fleming came from a wealthy and p...

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Portrait of Alvaro Mutis

Mutis, Álvaro
1923 - 2013

Álvaro Mutis was born in Bogotà, Colombia. Like many other Latin American authors he comes from a multicultural family. His f...

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Författarporträtt av Müller, Herta

Müller, Herta
1953 -

Herta Müller was born in the village of Nițchidorf in the Banat region of south-western Romania to parents from the G...

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Portrait of Michael Robotham

Robotham, Michael
1960 -

Michael Robotham is an Australian author of crime novels and a ghost writer. He was born in Casino, New South Wales,...

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Författarporträtt av Despentes, Virginie

Despentes, Virginie
1969 -

The French author Virginie Despentes was born in Nancy, northeast France. She was convinced from an early age that girls...

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