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  • It is 120 years today since Margery Allingham was born.

    English crime writer born in Ealing, London, as the daughter of Herbert John Allingham and his wife and cousin Emily Jane Hughes. Both parents were writers and journalists who regularly contributed to various weekly magazines. Herbert John was the editor of the New London Journal as well as the Christian Globe.
    Margery Allingham grew up in Essex as the oldest of three children. She was...

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  • It is 225 years today since Honoré de Balzac was born.

    Honoré de Balzac was born Honoré Balzac in Tours, France, to a civil servant and his wife who was 30 years his junior. He added the aristocratic "de" in 1831. After sporadically attending the Oratorian grammar school in Vendôme, he moved with his family to Paris in 1814, and in 1816 Balzac began to read law at the Sorbonne. Around this time, he had discovered literature, and he was given pe...

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  • It is 142 years today since Sigrid Undset was born.

    The Norwegian author and Nobel Laureate Sigrid Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark. Her mother was Danish. Already in 1884, the family moved to Oslo, or Christiania as the city was called at the time, where her father, the noted Norwegian archaeologist Ingvald Undset, got a position at the university. Her father, who was closest to Sigrid, gave her an early foundation for her interest in...

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  • It is 68 years today since Boris Akunin was born.

    Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was born in Zestaponi, Georgian USSR. His father was an officer and his mother a teacher. When Chkhartishvili was two years old, the family left Georgia and moved to Moscow where he grew up and attended school, majoring in English. Having become fascinated by Japanese culture...

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  • It is 54 years today since Dorthe Nors was born.

    The Danish author Dorthe Nors was born in Herning on the island of Jutland. Her family moved to rural Sinding-Ørre Sogn when she was four years old. Her mother was an artist and her father a carpenter. Nors and her two older brothers grew up in a home dedicated to the evangelical Lutheran missionary organisation Indre Mission and the ideas of the pastor and teacher Grundtvig.
    Even as a very ...

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Författarporträtt av Aleixandre, Vicente

Aleixandre, Vicente
1898 - 1984

Vicente Pío Marcellino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo was born in Seville, but for fifty years, until his death, he famously ...

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Författarporträtt av Warner, Alan

Warner, Alan
1964 -

Alan Warner is a Scottish author born in Connel near Oban on the west coast of Scotland. He grew up in a working class...

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Författarporträtt av Ellin, Stanley

Ellin, Stanley
1916 - 1986

Stanley Bernard Ellin was an American mystery writer born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Brooklyn College with a...

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Portrait image of Lindsey Davis

Davis, Lindsey
1949 -

Lindsey Davis is a British crime writer born in Birmingham where she attended the King Edward VI High School for Girls...

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