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Blackwood, Algernon
The British author Algernon Henry Blackwood grew up in a strictly religious home in Kent. He soon abandoned his Christian faith for Buddhism, thereby laying the foundation for a life-long interest in Eastern mysticism, the occult and Theosophy. He spent a year between 1885 and 1886 with the Moravian Brethren in Germany, and after a failed business attempt he became a dairy farmer in Canada in...
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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...
