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Sample of authors
Rivas, Manuel
Manuel Rivas is a Spanish novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and journalist born in La Coruña, Galicia in northwest Spain. His father was a mason who also played in a dance band; his mother was a milk seller who told her son to get himself a job where he did not have to get wet, so he went to university. The family moved to a rural, working class district on the outskirts of La Coruña when R...
Literary figures
Jakob Studer
Gender: Male
Perhaps the most famous problem solver in German-language crime fiction is Wachtmeister (approx: sergeant) Jakob Studer, a single elderly gentleman, overweight, with a pale, gaunt face and a heavy moustache. He was created by Swiss-Austrian Friedrich Glauser, is mainly active in the countryside and in small towns and solves his cases with the help of intuition and human knowledge.