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Portrait image of André Bjerke Photo: Klaus Forbregd / NTNU (1959)
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Bjerke, André

André Bjerke was a prominent figure on the Norwegian culture scene in the 1990s. He was an authority on Norwegian post-war literature and language, a translator, editor, critic and renowned chess player, but most of all he was the author of non-fiction, children’s books, crime fiction, essays and poetry, for which he is best known. His erudition earned him the epithet "Renaissance man".
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Pepe Carvalho

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Spain’s most famous private detective is Pepe Carvalho, a many-sided as well as a contradictory personality – he has, for example, been a CIA agent as well as an imprisoned communist. He is interested in food and literature, and solves cases in a row of books by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, in which the home city of both of them, Barcelona, is given a lot of room. Carvalho is often accompanied by his...

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