Photo: Fredrik Sandberg (2012) / TT
Sample of authors
Blædel, Sara
The Danish journalist and author Sara Blædel spent her early life in the Copenhagen district of Østerbro. When she was about eleven years old, the family moved to their former holiday home near Hvalsø in central Jutland where she grew up an only child. Her father was the well-known journalist Leif Blædel and her mother the actor Annegrethe Nissen. As a young girl, Sara Blædel loved horses, and she...
Literary figures
Bulldog (Hugh) Drummond [1]
Gender: Male
With his hero, the English writer Sapper (pseudonym for H.C. McNeile) created one of the most criticized figures in crime fiction. Hugh ‘Bulldog’ Drummond is a rich war veteran and adventurer, terribly good at everything from shooting to poker. He is also a conservative arch-nationalist with racist as well as fascist ideas. He surrounds himself with a crowd of jolly friends and his wife Phyllis Be...