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  • It is 88 years today since Lars Gustafsson was born.

    The Swedish author Lars Gustafsson was born in Västerås where his father was a merchant. He passed his baccalaureate in 1955 and was awarded a Licentiate Degree from the University of Uppsala in 1961. From the 1960s onwards he was a public figure that often participated in the public debate. He was editor of the literary magazine BLM between 1962 and 1972 and book reviewer for the tabloid E...

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  • It is 67 years today since Peter Høeg was born.

    The Danish author Peter Høeg was born in Copenhagen and grew up in the inner-city district of Christianshavn. His mother taught Greek and Latin in upper-secondary school and his father was a lawyer. He attended that smart Bording free school, but was expelled in 1973 on account of his behaviour. He eventually earned his baccalaureate at the Fredriksberg upper-secondary school in 1976.
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Författarporträtt av Rudberg, Denise

Rudberg, Denise
1971 -

Denise Rudberg is dubbed the queen of Swedish chick lit, and she has scored commercial high points in Sweden as well as in...

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Portrait of John Irving

Irving, John
1942 -

American novelist born as John Wallace Blunt, Jr. in Exeter, New Hampshire. His mother was a nurse and his stepfather...

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Portrait of Nathalie Sarraute

Sarraute, Nathalie
1900 - 1999

The French author Nathalie Sarraute was born as Natalie Tcherniak in Ivanovo-Voznesensk in Russia. She grew up in an...

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Portrait image of Karl Ove Knausgård

Knausgård, Karl Ove
1968 -

The Norwegian author and scholar Karl Ove Knausgård was born in Oslo and raised at Tromøya, Arendal and Kristiansand. K...

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