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Portrait image of Boris Akunin Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP Photo/TT (2012)

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Akunin, Boris

Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was born in Zestaponi, Georgian USSR. His father was an officer and his mother a teacher. When Chkhartishvili was two years old, the family left Georgia and moved to Moscow where he grew up and attended school, majoring in English. Having become fascinated by Japanese culture...

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George Felse

Gender: Male

A central character in the Felse detective family, created by Ellis Peters (pseudonym for Edith Pargeter). George Felse is a hard-working and honest middle-aged police detective in the fictive town Comerford in Shropshire in England. But in many of the cases he solves, important (sometimes even major) roles are played by his wife – called Bunty and previously a famous concert singer – and his tee...

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