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Nesser, Håkan
Håkan Nesser was born in Elvesta Gård (manor) on the outskirts of Kumla. His father was a farmer, as were his family since the 1600s. His mother was an office worker. In 1953, the family moved to Kumla, where the son went to Haga School and the local Junior Secondary School in Kumla, after which he started at Allé School in Hallsberg from which he graduated in 1968. In his youth, his great in...
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May, Peter
Writer of crime novels and TV manuscripts who has received many prizes. He was born in Glasgow in Scotland, but has lived in France since 2001 and became a French citizen in 2016. Peter May started his schooling in 1956 at Carolside Primary School in Glasgow, and decided already then to become a writer. The idea was not encouraged by his teachers, and he was later thrown out of a school after a...