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Sample of authors
Hermanson, Marie
Marie Hermanson was born and grew up in Sävedalen outside Gothenburg. Her parents were teachers. After completing her Journalism studies in 1977 as well as university courses in Sociology, Literature and Childrens’ Liteature, she worked for a while as a newspaper journalist, including a period at Arbetet.
She has also taught Creative Writing, written textbooks and been a scriptwriter for radio a...
Literary figures
Peter Diamond
Gender: Male
Peter Diamond is a police officer, formerly stationed in London, and now working in Bath in Somerset. He is 50+, a widower and overweight with abominable dietary habits – ‘an ambulatory heart attack’, according to his creator Peter Lovesey. Already in the early books, Diamond left the police service, but returned after a couple of novels. Through his stubbornness and the way he ignores orders, he...