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It is 93 years today since Derek Raymond was born.
English author, who during a Bohemian and wandering life occupied himself with a number of different jobs and activities, a by-no-means small part of them criminal. This is also reflected in his books: he is known as a pioneer in the crime-literature sub-genre called ‘British noir’, and which is usually set in environments and among people at the bottom of society. The books have been criticised f...
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Goddard, Robert
1954 -
Robert Goddard is a popular, much-translated and lauded British thriller writer with an unusual and highly personal style....
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Burke, James Lee
1936 -
James Lee Burke is an American author of Irish descent born in Houston, Texas, and brought up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf...
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Bolton, Sharon
1960 -
The English author Sharon Bolton was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, as the oldest of three girls. She grew up in Darwen and...
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Haas, Wolf
1960 -
Wolf Haas is an Austrian linguist and advertising copywriter who has emerged over the past years as one of the most...
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