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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 Liksom, Rosa

Liksom, Rosa
1958 -

The Finnish author Rosa Liksom was born as Anni Ylävaara in Övertornå, Lapponia, in the far north of Sweden where people on b...

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Författarporträtt av Broch, Hermann

Broch, Hermann
1886 - 1951

Hermann Broch was one of the most important one among those 20th century authors whose writings were also influenced by...

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Portrait image of Iris Murdoch

Murdoch, Iris
1919 - 1999

The British author and philosopher Jean Iris Murdoch was of both English and Irish stock. She was born in Dublin to...

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Författarporträtt av Norén, Lars

Norén, Lars
1944 - 2021

Swedish author, poet, and playwright, born in Stockholm. Lars Norén was raised partly in the province of Skåne (Scania). H...

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