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Theorin, Johan
Johan Theorin is a Swedish author and journalist. He was born in Gothenburg and grew up in Nora, where he moved with his family in 1964. He finds his inspiration on the island of Öland where he used to spend his summer holidays as a child. Theorin completed upper-secondary school in Lindesberg in 1983. After a year of military service followed he was an exchange student at Middlebury College, ...
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Pollock, Donald Ray
The American author Donald Ray Pollock was born and grew up in America’s backyard. In the little community called Knockemstiff in southern Ohio, there was – when Pollock was a child – a gravel road, some shops and about 400 inhabitants, most of them related to each other. When he was 17 years old, he dropped out of high school and got a job at a meat-packing factory in the neighbouring town of Chi...
