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Barnard, Robert
Robert Barnard was an English crime writer and scholar of international fame. He was born in Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex. In 1956, he went up to Oxford to read literature, possibly encouraged by his father who wrote unremarkable romances and young adult books. After graduating in 1959, Barnard taught at university in Australia 1961–1966. He married Louise Tabor there in 1963. They were making p...
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Arbetarlitteratur
By: Tony Samuelsson
”Om Martin Koch (1882-1940) och Gustav Hedenvind-Eriksson (1880-1967) en gång kallades arbetartraditionens grindstolpar, eftersom de var tidigt ute med att skriva om arbetarklassens liv, så har Moa Martinson (1890-1964) och Ivar Lo-Johansson (1901-1990) anlagt själva uppfarten till det hus som vi kan kalla arbetarlitteraturen. --- ”