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Blædel, Sara
The Danish journalist and author Sara Blædel spent her early life in the Copenhagen district of Østerbro. When she was about eleven years old, the family moved to their former holiday home near Hvalsø in central Jutland where she grew up an only child. Her father was the well-known journalist Leif Blædel and her mother the actor Annegrethe Nissen. As a young girl, Sara Blædel loved horses, and she...
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Schlink, Bernhard
The German lawyer and author Bernhard Schlink was born in Grossdornberg (now part of the city of Bielefeld) and grew up in Heidelberg. His mother was Swiss and his father German, a professor of theology at the University of Heidelberg. As a young man Schlink was interested in literature; he wanted either to become an author or to study history and sociology. But he followed his father's advice...