Sample of authors
Zangwill, Israel
Israel Zangwill was a British Jewish author. His father had emigrated from Lithuania and his mother was a Polish refugee. He grew up in London’s East End where he attended the Jew’s Free School. His talents soon came to the attention of his teachers, and when he was fourteen he began to teach younger pupils. When he was eighteen, after he had won a best comic story competition in a magazine, he go...
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Den navnløse
Gender: Male
A Danish journalist and private detective, whose name is never actually mentioned in the 13 books about him that Dan Turèll has written. The Nameless is an ordinary, rather worn-out gentleman who lives on his own in a boring flat and comes across crimes in shabby settings, inhabited by odd people. He solves cases with the help of Superintendent Ehlers – and the beautiful lawyer Gitte Bristol, wh...