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It is 108 years today since Ulla Isaksson was born.
Ulla Isaksson was born in Stockholm as Ulla Margareta Lundberg in a family of comfortable means. She attended a secondary school for girls and read humanities in the equivalent of upper-secondary school. Her grandparents on her mother's side were members of the Mission Covenant Church, and she was active in the organisation until she was in her thirties. As a young woman she was interested in...
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It is 93 years today since Derek Raymond was born.
English author, who during a Bohemian and wandering life occupied himself with a number of different jobs and activities, a by-no-means small part of them criminal. This is also reflected in his books: he is known as a pioneer in the crime-literature sub-genre called ‘British noir’, and which is usually set in environments and among people at the bottom of society. The books have been criticised f...
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Bond, Michael
1926 - 2017
The British author Thomas Michael Bond was born in Newbury, Berkshire, England. He attended Presentation College, Reading....
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Le Clézio, Jean-Marie Gustave
1940 -
French author, born and raised in Nice. His parents were British citizens with roots in Bretagne and in Mauritius in the...
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Herbert, James
1943 - 2013
James Herbert from England was one of the best-selling and most praised authors of horror fiction in the late 20th century....
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MacDonald, Philip
1899 - 1981
The English crime writer Philip MacDonald was born in London. Both his grandfather George and his father Ronald were...
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