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It is 165 years today since Arthur Conan Doyle was born.
Scottish author with Irish ancestry, born in Edinburgh. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, worked as a civil servant, but was also a painter and illustrator. He was sickly, become seriously alcoholic over the years and was admitted into psychiatric care in 1885. He died in 1893. It was Arthur’s mother, Mary, born Foley, who instead held the family together, struggling to give her son a good e...
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It is 75 years today since Aino Trosell was born.
Trosell is a Swedish writer, born in the town of Malung where she grew up in a blue-collar family. In 1967, Aino Trosell moved to Gothenburg where she combined her high school studies with work at a psychiatric institution and a tobacco company. After graduating with a Bachelor of Social Services from the Social Work College in 1974, she took on employment as a social worker, but found the job...
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Sand, George
1804 - 1876
A pseudonym of Aurore Dudevant, a French author born in Paris as Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, but from the age of four...
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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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Sholokhov, Mikhail
1905 - 1984
The Russian novelist and short story writer Mikhail Sholokhov was born in the village Veshenskaya (near Roston-on-Don) at...
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Stark, Ulf
1944 - 2017
Ulf Gottfrid Stark grew up in Stureby, Stockholm. He often based his settings and characters on his own childhood in the...
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