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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...
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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...
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![Författarporträtt av Treat, Lawrence](images/writer/6778/6778_20161108063234.jpg)
Treat, Lawrence
1903 - 1998
Lawrence Treat was an American lawyer and author who started a trend in police procedural crime fiction that was later...
Further reading![Portrait of Octavio Paz](images/writer/1357/6037da0d33175a1909593a1290ab0b4710a1252d5de8d.jpg)
Paz, Octavio
1914 - 1998
Octavio Paz is regarded as one of the foremost authors of the 20th century. He was born in Mixcoac near Mexico City the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Jacobsen, Roy](images/writer/834/wm_BR_834_20160408115741_Large.jpg)
Jacobsen, Roy
1954 -
Norwegian author born in Oslo where he grew up in a working-class suburb, but he spent his teenage years in North Norway....
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Cleeves, Ann](images/writer/4529/wm_BR_4529_20130821142738_Large.jpg)
Cleeves, Ann
1954 -
The British crime writer Ann Cleeves grew up in Herefordshire and North Devon, England. Her father was a teacher. After...
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