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Portrait image of Colson Whitehead Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2017)

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Whitehead, Colson

American writer Art Colson Chipp Whitehead spent his early years at 139th Riverside in Harlem, a tough place by his reckoning. His family later moved to other living quarters in Manhattan. His parents were middle class and well-to-do. Whitehead had three siblings. The children attended private schools, but his father still considered it mandatory to teach him the art of survival in such a racist...

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Portrait image of Andreas Norman Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2022)

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Norman, Andreas

Author Andreas Norman’s mother is the social anthropologist Karin Norman, and his father the psychoanalyst Johan Norman. At first, Andreas wanted to become an actor. He studied at Calle Flygare’s theatre school during his school years, but eventually decided that what he wanted to be was a poet. In 1996, he got a collection of poetry entitled I dagarnas lutning published. His dream of becoming a w...

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