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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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Författarporträtt av Vargas Llosa, Mario

Vargas Llosa, Mario
1936 -

Peruvian author, born in Arequipa in the southern part of the country. His parents divorced soon after his birth, and Mario...

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Portrait of Christa Wolf

Wolf, Christa
1929 - 2011

The German author Christa Wolf was born as Christa Ihlenfeld in Landsberg ab der Warthe (present-day Gorzów Wielkopolski in ...

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Portrait image of Johanna Nilsson

Nilsson, Johanna
1973 -

Johanna Nilsson was born in Uppsala and moved with her family to Borlänge when she was six years old. Her parents were ...

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Portrait image of Hugo Claus

Claus, Hugo
1929 - 2008

Belgian author. His father worked at a printing office and his mother was a housewife. When a new baby was on its way, his...

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