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Sample of authors
Muñoz Molina, Antonio
The Spanish author Antonio Muñoz Molina was born at Úbeda in Jaén, Andalucia where he attended the Santo Domingo Savio Jesuit primary school and San Juan de la Cruz upper-secondary school. He then went on to read history of art at Granada and journalism at Madrid.
Muñoz Molina made his literary debut in 1984 with a collection of columns previously published in the daily newspaper Ideal in Gra...
Literary figures
Jules-Joseph Maigret
Gender: Male
French detective inspector and something of an icon within the genre. Maigret was a farmer’s boy who became a cop by chance and quickly earned himself an office at the Paris police headquarters at Quai des Orfèvres. Georges Simenon’s books do not only follow the inspector’s investigations, but also his private life, including a happy, but childless, marriage.