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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: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images (1986)
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Deighton, Len
The British author Len Deighton was born as Leonard Cyril Deighton in London. His father was a chauffeur; his mother worked in a hotel kitchen. He was a boy when he helped his father as a volunteer during the London Blitz. After leaving school he worked briefly as a railway clerk, and at the age of seventeen he joined the Royal Air Force Special Investigation Branch as a photographer. He then...
