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Christie, Agatha

English detective writer, born as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in an affluent middle-class home in Torquay in Devon County. Her father, who was an American from New York, died already in 1901, and Agatha was therefore brought up by her English mother while receiving her education in the home. When sixteen, she was sent to Paris to study singing, but it soon turned out that her voice was not...

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Literary figures

Kurt Wallander

Gender: Male

Wallander lives and works in Ystad, southern Sweden. But it does not prevent him from leading investigations of especially difficult cases, chasing serial killers and international criminals. Through Henning Mankell’s books as well as adaptations for film and television, he has become a popular figure and one of Sweden’s best-known fictional characters worldwide.

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