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  • It is 88 years today since Lars Gustafsson was born.

    The Swedish author Lars Gustafsson was born in Västerås where his father was a merchant. He passed his baccalaureate in 1955 and was awarded a Licentiate Degree from the University of Uppsala in 1961. From the 1960s onwards he was a public figure that often participated in the public debate. He was editor of the literary magazine BLM between 1962 and 1972 and book reviewer for the tabloid E...

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  • It is 67 years today since Peter Høeg was born.

    The Danish author Peter Høeg was born in Copenhagen and grew up in the inner-city district of Christianshavn. His mother taught Greek and Latin in upper-secondary school and his father was a lawyer. He attended that smart Bording free school, but was expelled in 1973 on account of his behaviour. He eventually earned his baccalaureate at the Fredriksberg upper-secondary school in 1976.
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Portrait of Norman Mailer

Mailer, Norman
1923 - 2007

The American author, journalist and public debater Norman (in reality Nachem Malek) Mailer was born in Long Branch, New...

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Portrait of Elmore Leonard

Leonard, Elmore
1925 - 2013

The American author Elmore John Leonard, Jr. was born in New Orleans, but because his father worked for the automobile...

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Författarporträtt av Brooks, Kevin

Brooks, Kevin
1959 -

Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter and has studied Philosophy and Psychology at Aston University in Birmingham and in London....

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Författarporträtt av Zelazny, Roger

Zelazny, Roger
1937 - 1995

An American sci-fi and fantasy author, regarded as one of the foremost representatives for what is called the ‘new wave’ of t...

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