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It is 108 years today since Ulla Isaksson was born.
Ulla Isaksson was born in Stockholm as Ulla Margareta Lundberg in a family of comfortable means. She attended a secondary school for girls and read humanities in the equivalent of upper-secondary school. Her grandparents on her mother's side were members of the Mission Covenant Church, and she was active in the organisation until she was in her thirties. As a young woman she was interested in...
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It is 93 years today since Derek Raymond was born.
English author, who during a Bohemian and wandering life occupied himself with a number of different jobs and activities, a by-no-means small part of them criminal. This is also reflected in his books: he is known as a pioneer in the crime-literature sub-genre called ‘British noir’, and which is usually set in environments and among people at the bottom of society. The books have been criticised f...
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Stout, Rex
1886 - 1975
The American author Rex Todhunter Stout was born in Noblesville, Indiana, as the sixth of nine children to John and Lucetta...
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Vonnegut, Kurt
1922 - 2007
American author, born in Indianapolis, where both his father and grandfather were working as architects. Further back, the...
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Ritsos, Yiannis
1909 - 1990
Yiannis Ritsos was born in Monemvasia on the east coast of the Peloponnese peninsula. His parents were landowners. His...
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Fox, Paula
1923 - 2017
The American writer Paula Fox was born in New York to the scriptwriter Elsie Fox and the author Paul Hervey Fox who did not...
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