Maria Gripe (born July 25, 1923) Swedish children's book author - Hugo and Josephine
Visit Open Library to borrow Maria Gripe's books https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL552454A/Maria_Gripe
Watch a 1991 Swedish TV interview of Gripe (Swedish language)
here
Josephine Tey (Elizabeth MacKintosh, AKA Gordon Daviot) (born July 25, 1896) U.K. detective fiction novelist and historical playwright - The Daughter of Time (1951)
Read about Tey's contrarian detective fiction here
During her career as a crime novelist—from The Man in the Queue (1929) to The Singing Sands (published posthumously in 1952)—she broke almost all the commandments. As if willfully guying Monsignor Knox, the main character in her novel Brat Farrar (1949) was an impostor posing as a missing twin to grab an inheritance.
Her disdain for formulaic fiction is confirmed in the opening chapter of The Daughter of Time (1951). In a hospital recuperating from a broken leg, Detective Inspector Alan Grant despairs of the books on his bedside table, among them a writing-by-numbers mystery called The Case of the Missing Tin-Opener. “Did no one, any more, no one in all this wide world, change their record now and then?” he wonders despairingly.
Watch a discussion of Josephine Tey's literature
here
Diam's (Mélanie Georgiades) (born July 25, 1980) French rapper - Par amour
