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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...
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Aird, Catherine
1930 -
Catherine Aird is the pen name of the British crime writer Kinn Hamilton McIntosh. She was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire,...
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Södergran, Edith
1892 - 1923
The Finland-Swedish poet Edith Södergran was born in St. Petersburg, but her family soon moved to the village of Raivola on ...
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Andersson, Lena
1970 -
Swedish author, journalist and playwright who grew up in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta in a family belonging to what she...
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