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Ekman, Kerstin
Kerstin Lillemor Ekman (born Hjort) is one of Sweden's foremost living novelists. She was born in Finspång and grew up in Katrineholm. In 1957 she graduated from Uppsala University with the equivalent of an MA. She was a scriptwriter and producer at the documentary film company Artfilm between 1956 and 1959 and she taught at the Wik Folk Highschool near Uppsala between 1966 and 1970.
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Literary figures
Gideon Oliver
Gender: Male
Oliver is an anthropologist with an international reputation as the ‘Skeleton detective’. His speciality is skeleton research, and the police in several countries make use of his knowledge when it comes to determining the age and sex of a skeleton and the time of death. He is a bachelor in the first novels, but subsequently marries Julie Tendler, who becomes an important assistant to him in the bo...