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Sample of authors
Sjöwall, Maj
Maj Sjöwall was a Swedish author, journalist and translator born in Stockholm. Having been married twice between 1955 and 1962, she lived with her partner, Per Wahlöö, between 1963 until his death in 1975.
Maj Sjöwall found international fame with the ten social critical police novels she wrote with her partner Per Wahlöö, each featuring the subtitle "Novel about a Crime". These books are extre...
Literary figures
Andy Blake
Gender: Male
The handsome, quiet antiques dealer Andrew “Andy” Blake is married to the adventurous, beautiful Arabella, or Arab. They are an ill-matched, but happy, couple. Arab is the driving force in a series of entertaining, almost farcical, books by the American author Richard Powell in which the couple fight Nazis and other criminals around the United States.