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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
Jim Chee
Gender: Male
Jim Chee is a Navajo police officer working in a Native American reservation where he often collaborates with an older (later retired) officer by the name of Joe Leaphorn. When he is not solving crime, Chee likes to study Navajo culture and religion, and he is training to become a hataalii, a shaman. The author, Tony Hillerman, is not from the Navajo tribe, but he grew up in a reservation.