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Portrait image of Val McDermid Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex

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McDermid, Val

Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer born in Kirkcaldy, Fife. She attended Kirkcaldy High School where she was among a group of pupils that participated in a controversial project for especially talented students based on IQ tests.
When she was seventeen, she was the first student from a Scottish state school to be admitted to St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she graduated with a Bachelor o...

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Portrait image of Sofie Sarenbrant Photo: Ola Erikson (2014) / Forflex

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Sarenbrant, Sofie

Author and freelance journalist Sofie Sarenbrant (born Sjöstedt) grew up on Narebo Gård in Gusum, in Valdemarsvik municipality, together with three siblings. Her mother is a journalist specialising in interior design, and her father is a photographer. Sofie Sarenbrant has spent many summers in the family’s holiday house in Brantevik, a coastal village in the south of Sweden, which gave her the ins...

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