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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...
Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2023)
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Mina, Denise
Denise Mina is a Scottish lawyer and author of crime novels. She was born in East Kilbride, Glasgow. Her father was an oil engineer who worked on platforms in the North Sea, which meant that the family often moved homes – they moved 21 times in 18 years. Mina grew up in Paris, The Hague, Bergen, London, Perth and Invergordon, but she spent most of her school holidays with her mother’s relatives in...
