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It is 131 years today since Dorothy L. Sayers was born.
English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and his wife Helen Leigh Sayers. When Dorothy L. (Leigh) Sayers was four years old, the family moved to Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire where the father was appointed pastor. The parents had cultural and linguistic interests, and regularly travelled with their daughter to...
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It is 159 years today since William Butler Yeats was born.
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin to an Anglo-Irish family, but he spent most of his life in England and France. His father was a successful portrait painter, and the young Yeats intended to follow in his footsteps. He attended the School of Art in Dublin, but after three years he abandoned art for literature.
He published his first poetry collection, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other...
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Holst, Kirsten
1936 - 2008
Kirsten Holst was a Danish author, teacher and editor known for her detective stories and young adult fiction. She was born...
Further reading![Portrait image of Gavin Lyall](images/writer/6783/619ad6f7692a8f7d30900d5f6fdfa3b42fce0da47843e.jpg)
Lyall, Gavin
1932 - 2003
Gavin Tudor Lyall was a British author of espionage thrillers. He was born in Birmingham, England, where he attended the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Grimsrud, Beate](images/writer/648/wm_BR_648_20150206094626_Large.jpg)
Grimsrud, Beate
1963 - 2020
The Norwegian novelist, playwright and filmmaker Beate Grimsrud was born in Bærum, a suburb of Oslo, where she grew up with ...
Further reading![Portrait image of Victor Canning](images/writer/3403/618cf3ef297d45850529f1cc6664baba6171927271329.jpg)
Canning, Victor
1911 - 1986
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the...
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