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Ekman, Kerstin
Kerstin Lillemor Ekman (born Hjort) is one of Sweden's foremost living novelists. She was born in Finspång and grew up in Katrineholm. In 1957 she graduated from Uppsala University with the equivalent of an MA. She was a scriptwriter and producer at the documentary film company Artfilm between 1956 and 1959 and she taught at the Wik Folk Highschool near Uppsala between 1966 and 1970.
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Literary figures
Rinus de Gier
Gender: Male
He is a youthful and athletic police detective, a convinced bachelor despite the fact that he likes women and has many female ‘friends’. He comes from Rotterdam, but works in Amsterdam, where he partners his phlegmatic older colleague Henk Grijpstra in police novels by Janwillem van de Wetering. Rinus de Gier is a dreamer, very fond of cats, and an amateur musician – he often has a flute in his po...