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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 Orwell, George](images/writer/1321/1321_20130131213031.jpg)
Orwell, George
1903 - 1950
Pseudonym for Eric Blair, English author, critic and journalist, born in Motihari, in British India, where his British...
Further reading![Portrait of Czeslaw Milosz](images/writer/1183/662a5f2a1a68eb15724ae05ec96498ef8b40615584799.jpg)
Milosz, Czeslaw
1911 - 2004
Polish author and Nobel Prize laureate born and raised in the village of Šeteniai, Lithuania, the Russian Empire. His ...
Further reading![Portrait image of Anna Enquist](images/writer/484/wm_BL_63727b1dcb1d7138365288ea9dc9d1ffa5c56d93de630.jpg)
Enquist, Anna
1945 -
A pseudonym for Christa Widlund-Broer.
The Dutch prose writer and poet Anna Enquist was born in Amsterdam as Christa...
![Författarporträtt av Baudelaire, Charles](images/writer/141/141_20120129112430.jpg)
Baudelaire, Charles
1821 - 1867
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was born in Paris. His father, a government official during the reign of Napoleon, was interested...
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