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Sample of authors
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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Sample of authors
Pollock, Donald Ray
The American author Donald Ray Pollock was born and grew up in America’s backyard. In the little community called Knockemstiff in southern Ohio, there was – when Pollock was a child – a gravel road, some shops and about 400 inhabitants, most of them related to each other. When he was 17 years old, he dropped out of high school and got a job at a meat-packing factory in the neighbouring town of Chi...