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Rönkä, Matti
The Finnish journalist and novelist Matti Rönkä was born and raised in Kuusjärvi – today part of Outokumpu– near the Russian border in northern Karelia. He later moved to Helsinki where he attended the Helsingin Sanomat school for journalism. In 1989, he was awarded a degree in social studies at the University of Helsinki. In 1990, he was employed at the state television company YLE where he worke...
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Du Maurier, Daphne
The British novelist and playwright Daphne du Maurier was born in London to parents who were both prominent actors; her grandfather was an author and caricaturist for Punch. Daphne du Maurier attended public schools in London and Paris and began to write at an early age, her first novel The Loving Spirit came in 1931. The following year she married Frederick "Boy" Browning, later promoted to...