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Liffner, Eva-Marie
Eva-Marie Liffner is a Swedish author and journalist born in Gothenburg and raised in Frölunda in the 1950s, where she inherited her mother’s love of books. When she finished school she worked at Swedish Customs and then at the Gothenburg public library. Before becoming a journalist and literary critic she studied archaeology and intellectual history with a view to post-graduate studies. She has b...
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Hawkins, Paula
Paula Hawkins grew up in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). Her father was an economics professor and journalist. Paula spent the best part of her early childhood happily ignorant of the social injustices that were to lead up to the formation of Zimbabwe. She moved with her family to England in 1989, and after a few years her parents returned to Africa. Hawkins read political science,...