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It is 93 years today since Derek Raymond was born.
English author, who during a Bohemian and wandering life occupied himself with a number of different jobs and activities, a by-no-means small part of them criminal. This is also reflected in his books: he is known as a pioneer in the crime-literature sub-genre called ‘British noir’, and which is usually set in environments and among people at the bottom of society. The books have been criticised f...
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Egeland, Tom
1959 -
Norwegian author and journalist, born in Oslo and raised in the suburb of Kalbakken in Groruddalen, where his parents had a...
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Lethem, Jonathan
1964 -
The extremely prolific American author Jonathan Allen Lethem is best known for his crime novels, many of them with science...
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Grafton, Sue
1940 - 2017
Sue Taylor Grafton was an American author of detective novels born in Louisville, Kentucky. Her father, Cornelius Warren...
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Leonard, Elmore
1925 - 2013
The American author Elmore John Leonard, Jr. was born in New Orleans, but because his father worked for the automobile...
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