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Sample of authors
Turèll, Dan
Danish novelist and poet who was something as unusual as a well-respected and genuinely popular cultural figure. He was born in Copenhagen as Dan Turèll-Jensen, the oldest of five siblings. When he was nine years old the family moved to the suburb of Vangede where he grew up. In connection with this, the family 1956 shortened the surname to Turèll. He learned to read before he started school, b...
Literary figures
Mici Anhalt
Gender: Female
She has been a ballerina and worked at a prosecutor’s office, but now Mici (pronounced as ‘Mitzi’) Anhalt is employed by a department which appraises damages for victims of crime. In the books by Lillian O’Donnell, she is, however, foremost an enthusiastic amateur detective. She is beautiful, has ‘golden-red’ hair, and having grown up in the 1960s has had a varied sex life, some left-wing sympathi...