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Nilsson, Johanna
Johanna Nilsson was born in Uppsala and moved with her family to Borlänge when she was six years old. Her parents were members of the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden, and this background that has come to inform her life and work. She is no longer "fundamental", but she often prays and holds conversations with God. To her, the Christian faith is about people looking after each other and caring ...
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Turèll, Dan
Danish novelist and poet who was something as unusual as a well-respected and genuinely popular cultural figure. He was born in Copenhagen as Dan Turèll-Jensen, the oldest of five siblings. When he was nine years old the family moved to the suburb of Vangede where he grew up. In connection with this, the family 1956 shortened the surname to Turèll. He learned to read before he started school, b...