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It is 69 years today since Val McDermid was born.
Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer born in Kirkcaldy, Fife. She attended Kirkcaldy High School where she was among a group of pupils that participated in a controversial project for especially talented students based on IQ tests. When she was seventeen, she was the first student from a Scottish state school to be admitted to St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she graduated with a Bachelor o...
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Nesser, Håkan
1950 -
Håkan Nesser was born in Elvesta Gård (manor) on the outskirts of Kumla. His father was a farmer, as were his family since t...
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Adams, Douglas
1952 - 2001
Douglas Noel Adams was a British author born in Cambridge. His father had studied theology, but worked as a probation...
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Bulgakov, Mikhail
1891 - 1940
The Russian prose writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev and grew up in a snug middle class environment – h...
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Pushkin, Alexander
1799 - 1837
The Russian author Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born in Moscow to one of the oldest noble families in Russia with...
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