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Portrait image of Carin Gerhardsen Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2015)

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Gerhardsen, Carin

Carin Behrman, as she was called in those days, was born and grew up in Katrineholm. Her father was a judge at the Katrineholm district court, and the main secretary in the government commission on the freedom of expression which resulted in the Freedom of the Press Act and the constitutional law on freedom of expression. Her mother was a gymnasie school teacher of Swedish and English – so there w...

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Portrait of William Boyd Photo: Peter Peitsch (2009) / www.peitschphoto.com

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Boyd, William

The British author William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana. His father, a doctor, and his mother, a teacher, moved to The British Gold Coast in 1950, and Boyd grew up in a house full of black servants. The British Gold Coast became independent Ghana when he was five years old, and the family moved to Nigeria, whose independence in 1960 was followed by military coups and civil war. The war in...

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