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  • It is 68 years today since Patricia D. Cornwell was born.

    The American crime writer Patricia Cornwell was born in Miami, Florida, as Patricia Carroll Daniels. After her parents’ divorce she grew up with her mother in Montreat, North Carolina. She married her English professor after graduating from Davidson College and started to work as a journalist at the Charlotte Observer in 1979. She soon became the newspaper’s crime reporter. She has also worked as...

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Portrait image of Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Toer, Pramoedya Ananta
1925 - 2006

Pramoedya Ananta Toer is Indonesia's best-known author outside Indonesia. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize and he...

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Författarporträtt av Martín Gaite, Carmen

Martín Gaite, Carmen
1925 - 2000

Spanish author born in Salamanca. Carmen Martín Gaites is one of Spain's most acclaimed authors after the war. Although ...

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Författarporträtt av Lindgren, Torgny

Lindgren, Torgny
1938 - 2017

The Swedish author Torgny Lindgren was born Gustav Torgny Lindgren at Raggsjö, Västerbotten County. In the 1970s, he moved t...

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Författarporträtt av Sholokhov, Mikhail

Sholokhov, Mikhail
1905 - 1984

The Russian novelist and short story writer Mikhail Sholokhov was born in the village Veshenskaya (near Roston-on-Don) at...

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