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It is 65 years today since Viveca Sten was born.
Viveca Bergstedt Sten grew up in Stockholm. She spent her summer breaks on the island of Sandhamn in the Stockholm archipelago where her family has owned a house since 1917 when her great grandparents acquired the Lagerta family estate from the son of the master pilot. She read and wrote from an early age, she edited the school magazine and at university she contributed to the law students’ m...
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It is 162 years today since Carolyn Wells was born.
Carolyn Wells was a best-selling American author of children’s and young adult books and mystery stories in the early 1900s. She was a successful editor of anthologies and a respected poet, and she also wrote copy for a few comic strips. Her popularity endures; her children’s and young adult stories as well as her poetry collections are still in print.
Her mystery stories are more uneven, how...
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![Portrait of Nic Pizzolatto](images/writer/6825/6099272b2b28d3186d0216ce0f728c3b8f55829071b8c.jpg)
Pizzolatto, Nic
1975 -
The American author Nicholas Austin "Nic" Pizzolatto is the author of the bestselling novel Galveston (2010) and the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Brodsky, Joseph](images/writer/248/248_20131026112929.jpg)
Brodsky, Joseph
1940 - 1996
The Russian poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky was born to a Jewish family in Leningrad as Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky. His...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Atwood, Margaret](images/writer/111/wm_BR_111_20160229154510_Large.jpg)
Atwood, Margaret
1939 -
Canadian author, born in Ottawa and grew up in Ontario, Quebec and Toronto. Her parents, Carl Edmund Atwood and Margaret...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Swift, Jonathan](images/writer/1678/1678_20150320102816_Large.jpg)
Swift, Jonathan
1667 - 1745
The Anglo-Irish author and satirist Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland. His cousin was the English poet and...
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