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Unsworth, Barry
The British author Barry Unsworth was born to a family of miners in County Durham, northeast England. They moved away from the mining region and began their climb up the social ladder when his father began to work for an insurance company. Barry Unsworth attended Stockton-on-Tees Grammar School and read English at the University of Manchester between 1948 and 1951 after which he did his national...
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Småge, Kim
Kim Småge is a pseudonym used by the Norwegian author Anne Karin Thorshus who was born in Trondheim. After having completed her education in 1964, she worked as a secretary in Trondheim. She studied economics at the Trondheim Økonomiske Gymnas and then read Norwegian, English and Geography at the University of Trondheim, graduating in 1977. In 1980, she became Norway’s first female diving ins...
