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Sample of authors
Trosell, Aino
Trosell is a Swedish writer, born in the town of Malung where she grew up in a blue-collar family. In 1967, Aino Trosell moved to Gothenburg where she combined her high school studies with work at a psychiatric institution and a tobacco company. After graduating with a Bachelor of Social Services from the Social Work College in 1974, she took on employment as a social worker, but found the job...
Literary figures
Henk Grijpstra
Gender: Male
Grijpstra is a middle-aged detective in Amsterdam who has teamed up with detective Rinus de Gier in a string of police novels by Janwillem van de Wetering. Grijpstra hails from Friesland. He is an unhappily married man who wanted to become a jazz musician or artist as a young man. He consoles himself by playing a set of drums that mysteriously appeared at the police headquarters one day.