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  • It is 71 years today since Lars Saabye Christensen was born.

    Norwegian author who grew up in the Oslo suburb Skillebekk. He also lived for several years in Sortland in northern Norway, two places he keeps returning to in his books. Christensen read Norwegian, literature, history of ideas and art at university. He now lives in Oslo.
    Lars Saabye Christensen is committed to help promote new talent in Norway. Between 1986 and the early nineties, he edited...

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  • It is 77 years today since Stephen King was born.

    Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and philanderer (King has a half-sister in Brazil), went through a number of aliases before he changed his surname to King. When Stephen was two years old, his father went out to by cigarettes and never came back. Stephen grew up in poor circumstances with his mother Ruth and his adopted...

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Författarporträtt av Hollinghurst, Alan

Hollinghurst, Alan
1954 -

Alan James Hollinghurst is a British author who was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, and grew up in Faringdon, Berkshire,...

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Författarporträtt av Despentes, Virginie

Despentes, Virginie
1969 -

The French author Virginie Despentes was born in Nancy, northeast France. She was convinced from an early age that girls...

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Författarporträtt av Stoker, Bram

Stoker, Bram
1847 - 1912

The Irish author and journalist Abraham "Bram" Stoker was born at Clontarf near Dublin where he grew up in a middle-class...

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Portrait image of Oscar Wilde

Wilde, Oscar
1854 - 1900

Oscar Wilde was born in a physician's family in Dublin. His mother had literary interests. Wilde later attended Trinity...

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