Sample of authors
Lövestam, Sara
The author, radio presenter, linguist and language teacher Sara Maria Kristina Lövestam was born in Uppsala. She now lives with her partner in a southern suburb to Stockholm.
Her family moved from Knutby to Lugnvik near Östersund. 1989 the family moved to Sigtuna and 1989-90 they spent half a year living in Zimbabwe. After secondary school, Lövestam moved to Stockholm where she attended the Ry...
Literary figures
Mumtaz Hakim
Gender: Female
Her family come from Bangladesh, but she has grown up in London. She became a widow at a young age when her husband – a brutal petty gangster – was murdered in a gang fight, and since then she has lived alone with her teenage step-daughter Shazia. Even though Mumtaz Hakim is a Muslim, and thus wears a veil, she is employed as an assistant by private detective Lee Arnold. The two together are the p...