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Alice Munro by Robert Thacker Alice Laidlaw Munro was born in Wingham, Ontario, Canada on July 10, 1931, the eldest child of Robert Eric Laidlaw (1901–76), a fox farmer, and Anne Clarke Chamney Laidlaw (1898–1959), a former schoolteacher. Members of her father’s family, having emigrated to Upper Canada from the Ettrick Valley on the Scottish…

Presentation Speech by Gustaf Hellström, Member of the , December 10, 1950 William Faulkner is essentially a regional writer, and as such reminds Swedish readers now and then of two of our own most important novelists, and Hjalmar Bergman. Faulkner’s Värmland is the northern part of the state of Mississippi and his Vadköping is called…

William Faulkner (1897-1962), who came from an old southern family, grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. He joined the Canadian, and later the British, Royal Air Force during the First World War, studied for a while at the University of Mississippi, and temporarily worked for a New York bookstore and a New Orleans newspaper. Except for…

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