Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2013)
Sample of authors
Eriksson, Kjell
The Swedish author and gardener Kjell Eriksson was born in Uppsala, Sweden and grew up in a working-class family on Ymergatan in the district of Almtuna. His father worked on the railway and his mother was a shop assistant. He has been employed as a construction worker and gardener, and he ran his own garden centre part-time before becoming a full-time author.
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Literary figures
Lindsay Gordon
Gender: Female
Lindsay Gordon is a hardboiled, cynical, lesbian crime reporter and the protagonist of half a dozen novels by Val McDermid. She is a Socialist, feminist jazz lover who tries to cut down on her cigarette and whiskey consumption. Her unorthodox methods are not always appreciated, especially not by the police, but that does not stop her from continuing to harass them.