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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... -
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 Wordsworth, William](images/writer/1893/1893_20130305163106.jpg)
Wordsworth, William
1770 - 1850
The English poet William Wordsworth was born in Cumberland as the son of a lawyer, but lost his parents at an early age. He...
Further reading![Portrait of Chester Himes](images/writer/2950/60993628d14429f08b7890065f2374cfc2bff83bd77df.jpg)
Himes, Chester
1909 - 1984
Chester Bomar Himes was among the foremost Afro-American authors, especially in terms of the way he wrote about racism in...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Sten, Viveca](images/writer/5606/wm_BR_5606_20150910004255_Large.jpg)
Sten, Viveca
1959 -
Viveca Bergstedt Sten grew up in Stockholm. She spent her summer breaks on the island of Sandhamn in the Stockholm...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Karlfeldt, Erik Axel](images/writer/907/907_20121211193542.jpg)
Karlfeldt, Erik Axel
1864 - 1931
The Swedish poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt was born as Erik Axel Eriksson in the village of Karlbo in the province of Dalarna....
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