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![Portrait of Väinö Linna](images/writer/1056/1056_20120418143826.jpg)
Linna, Väinö
1920 - 1992
Finnish author born in Urjala as the seventh child in a working class family of ten children. His father, a butcher, died...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de](images/writer/306/5b2cd48f554f732f7a37c5b9956067763a313e190916a.jpg)
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
1547 - 1616
Spanish author, born in Alcalá de Henares. Although coming from a noble family, his father was a poor barber-surgeon. ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Solstad, Dag](images/writer/1600/wm_BR_1600_20160428124409_Large.jpg)
Solstad, Dag
1941 -
The Norwegian author Dag Solstad was born in Sandefjord. After finishing school he worked for a year as a journalist on a...
Further reading![Portrait image of Edgar Wallace](images/writer/5547/5547_20130227231615.jpg)
Wallace, Edgar
1875 - 1932
During his most productive period, the English author Edgar Wallace was one of the most popular authors in Europe....
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