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Portrait image of Donna Leon Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2018)

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Leon, Donna

The American crime writer Donna Leon was born in Montclaire, New Jersey. At the age of twenty-three, she published her dissertation on Jane Austen. She has worked as a guide in Rome, copywriter in London and she has taught at American schools in Switzerland, China, Saudi Arabia and Iran. She has lived in Venice since the early eighties where she taught literature before becoming a successful...

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Lövestam, Sara

The author, queer activist, radio presenter, linguist and language teacher Sara Maria Kristina Lövestam was born in Uppsala. She spent the first two years of her life in a hippie commune at Knutby, near Uppsala. She now lives with her partner in a southern suburb to Stockholm.
Her family moved from Knutby to Lugnvik near Östersund. 1989 the family moved to Sigtuna and 1989-90 they spent half a y...

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