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  • It is 69 years today since Val McDermid was born.

    Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer born in Kirkcaldy, Fife. She attended Kirkcaldy High School where she was among a group of pupils that participated in a controversial project for especially talented students based on IQ tests. When she was seventeen, she was the first student from a Scottish state school to be admitted to St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she graduated with a Bachelor o...

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Författarporträtt av Sappho

Sappho
c. 630 BCE - c. 570 BCE

Thanks to the Athenian politician and poet Solon we know that the lyrical poet Sappho from the island of Lesbos was both...

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Författarporträtt av Manea, Norman

Manea, Norman
1936 -

Romanian author of Jewish descent born in Suceava, Bukovina, in northern Romania. He and his family were brought to a...

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Författarporträtt av Cox, Anthony Berkeley

Cox, Anthony Berkeley
1893 - 1971

Anthony Berkeley Cox is regarded as one of the most influential authors in English crime literature during the inter-war...

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Författarporträtt av Lesage, Alain René

Lesage, Alain René
1668 - 1747

Alain-René Lesage was a French playwright and novelist born in Bretagne. He read law in Paris and practiced briefly before ...

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