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Sample of authors
Camilleri, Andrea
Italian author and theatre/film producer, born in the industrial town Porto Empedocle in Agrigento province on the south coast of Sicily. He came from a culturally interested family – he says himself that his paternal grandfather was a good friend with Luigi Pirandello among others – and even in his youth was a large consumer of literature, which is clearly visible in his own works, as is his int...
Literary figures
Gordianus
Gender: Female
He is called Gordianus the Finder, and is a private investigator in ancient Rome in the days of Julius Caesar. ‘Lawyers’ and orators like Cicero are some of the people who use his services in historical crime novels by Steven Saylor. Gordianus’ wife is the Egyptian Bethesda, previously his concubine whom he had bought as a slave. He lives in Rome until he inherits a farm in Etruria, but later move...