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  • It is 65 years today since Viveca Sten was born.

    Viveca Bergstedt Sten grew up in Stockholm. She spent her summer breaks on the island of Sandhamn in the Stockholm archipelago where her family has owned a house since 1917 when her great grandparents acquired the Lagerta family estate from the son of the master pilot. She read and wrote from an early age, she edited the school magazine and at university she contributed to the law students’ m...

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  • It is 162 years today since Carolyn Wells was born.

    Carolyn Wells was a best-selling American author of children’s and young adult books and mystery stories in the early 1900s. She was a successful editor of anthologies and a respected poet, and she also wrote copy for a few comic strips. Her popularity endures; her children’s and young adult stories as well as her poetry collections are still in print.
    Her mystery stories are more uneven, how...

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Portrait of Sophie Hannah

Hannah, Sophie
1971 -

The British poet and novelist Sophie Hannah was born and raised in Manchester. She grew up with her younger sister in a...

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Författarporträtt av Tranströmer, Tomas

Tranströmer, Tomas
1931 - 2015

Swedish poet, born and raised on Söder in Stockholm. Tomas Tranströmer grew up with his mother, who was a teacher. His f...

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Författarporträtt av Tvedt, Chris

Tvedt, Chris
1954 -

The Norwegian author Baard Christian Tvedt was born in Bergen. He read architecture at the University of Birmingham, but...

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Portrait image of Erle Stanley Gardner

Gardner, Erle Stanley
1889 - 1970

Erle Stanley Gardner was an American author and lawyer born in Malden, Massachusetts. His father was a mining engineer who...

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