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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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Författarporträtt av Myrdal, Jan

Myrdal, Jan
1927 - 2020

Swedish author, born in Stockholm to Gunnar and Alva Myrdal, both social democratic cabinet ministers, Nobel Prize winners...

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Portrait image of Miguel Angel Asturias

Asturias, Miguel Angel
1899 - 1974

Miguel Angel Asturias was born in Guatemala City and grew up in the countryside. His father was a lawyer and his mother a...

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Portrait image of Ruth Lillegraven

Lillegraven, Ruth
1978 -

Norwegian poet, novelist and author of books for children, Ruth Lillegraven was born in Granvin in Hardanger, and grew up...

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Författarporträtt av Coetzee, J.M.

Coetzee, J.M.
1940 -

J.M. (John Maxwell) Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa. Although he is of Boer descent, the family spoke English...

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