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John Norum was born on 23 February 1964 in Vardö, Norway. He is an actor and composer, known for Far Out Man (1990), John Norum: Let Me Love You (1987) and John Norum: Love Is Meant to Last Forever (1987). He was previously married to Michelle Meldrum.- Anni Blomqvist was born on 7 October 1909 in Vårdö, Finland. She was a writer, known for Stormskärs Maja (1975) and Stormskerry Maja (2024). She was married to Valter Blomqvist. She died on 26 June 1990 in Vårdö, Finland.
- Daughter of famous Norwegian politician, Adam Egede-Nissen. Stage debut in 1916, thereafter a silent movie career in Germany until 1920. There she started a production company together with her two older sisters: Aud Richter and Gerd Grieg. She was very popular in her own series of crime dramas, under the name "Ada Van Ehlers". Later she became a character actress at the national theater in Oslo from 1933 to 1969.
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Laila Mikkelsen was born on 20 August 1940 in Vardø, Norway. She was a director and writer, known for Oss (1976), Snart 17 (1984) and Liten Ida (1981). She died on 13 January 2023 in Norway.- Finnish novelist Sally Salminen was born in Vårdö, Åland, Finland, in 1906, the eighth of 12 children. Even as a young child she had wanted to become a writer, but thought that she was too poor and uneducated to succeed in that field. A Catholic, she was confirmed at approximately age 12 and went to work in a local grocery store. She stayed there until she found a job in Sweden as a maid, and moved to Stockholm. While there she took correspondence courses and immersed herself in reading books, something she hadn't the opportunity to do in Finland.
In 1930 she and her sister traveled to the US, where Sally secured work as a maid in New York City, Massachusetts and New Jersey. While in New York she began writing when she had the time, and the result of that effort was her first novel, "Katrina"; in 1936 a publisher announced a writing contest, she submitted her manuscript and it won. The novel, about a young woman who moves to a remote Finnish town after her marriage, became a worldwide best-seller, and was translated into more than 20 languages. In 1940 she married a Danish painter, Johannes Dierkop, and moved to Denmark. She continued writing, but unfortunately none of her efforts matched the success of her first novel.
Her brother Runar Salminen was also an author and poet, her brother Uno turned out a trilogy of well-received novels and her sister Aili also wrote several novels.
She died on July 18, 1976.