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  • It is 86 years today since Torgny Lindgren was born.

    The Swedish author Torgny Lindgren was born Gustav Torgny Lindgren at Raggsjö, Västerbotten County. In the 1970s, he moved to Vimmerby in Småland where he worked as a schoolteacher. Lindgren lived with his wife Stina at Tjärstad vicarage near Rimforsa, Östergötland County.
    He made his debut in 1965 with the poetry collection Plåtsax, hjärtats instrument. In the 1970s, he was a member of the Socia...

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  • It is 86 years today since Joyce Carol Oates was born.

    American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the state of New York. The family had a difficult economic situation and she spent most of her childhood and adolescence with her paternal grandparents on a farm in Erie. As a child, she liked to read and write; she got her first book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from her g...

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  • It is 67 years today since Alexandra Marinina was born.

    Alexandra Marinina is the pseudonym of Marina Anatolyevna Alekseyeva, a Russian author born in Lviv, western Ukraine. Her father, who died in 1973, was a police officer and her mother a lawyer. When she was still young, the family moved to Leningrad (now St.Petersburg) and then to Moscow. She attended an English-language school in Leningrad, and the Rimsky-Korsakov conservatory in Moscow. She...

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Författarporträtt av Kemelman, Harry

Kemelman, Harry
1908 - 1996

Harry Kemelman was an American mystery writer and professor of English. He was born in Boston to Russian-Jewish immigrant...

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Författarporträtt av Voltaire

Voltaire
1694 - 1778

French author, the son of a notary, born as François-Marie Arouet in Paris. When he was ten years old, he was admitted to ...

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Författarporträtt av Brecht, Bertolt

Brecht, Bertolt
1898 - 1956

German poet, playwright and essayist born in Augsburg where his father was the managing director of a paper mill. Brecht...

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Portrait of Alberto Moravia

Moravia, Alberto
1907 - 1990

Alberto Pincherle Moravia was a dominating, though controversial, literary and intellectual figure in 20th century Italy....

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