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McCall Smith, Alexander
The British author Alexander McCall Smith – called Sandy by family and friends – was born in Bulawayo in the then British colony of Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) as the youngest of four children to a British public prosecutor and his wife. He was schooled at the Christian Brothers College in Bulawayo before travelling to Scotland in 1966 to start studying Law at the University of Edi...
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Indisk litteratur
By: Tomas Löfström
”Den indiska litteraturen sträcker sig långt tillbaka i tiden. De äldsta Vedaskrifterna, däribland Rigveda med sin kända skapelseberättelse, uppkom troligen redan kring år 1500 f Kr. Men till en början traderades dessa mestadels religiösa urkunder bara muntligt, och det dröjde många hundra år innan de började skrivas ner på sanskrit. --- ”