Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/TT (2019)
Sample of authors
Tokarczuk, Olga
Polish author, born in the little village Klenica in western Poland, where her parents were teachers at a residential college, but from the age of one she grew up in the town of Kietrz. As an adult, Olga Tokarczuk moved to Warsaw, trained as a Jungian psychologist and has also worked as a psychotherapist. She has since lived in many places, but is now settled in Wroclaw and Nowa Ruda close to...
Literary figures
Thatcher Colt
Gender: Male
Police commissioner in New York, and the main character in eight orthodox whodunnits by Anthony Abbot (pseudonym for Fulton Oursler). Thatcher Colt is middle-aged, dark haired and brown eyed, born in a rich family, well educated, interested in poetry and always well dressed. He is a bachelor, but after a few novels he marries Florence Dunbar. He is also a skilled professional who solves the most...