Sample of authors
Pepetela
His full name is Artur Carlos Mauricio Pestana dos Santos, an Angolan author, born in the coastal town of Benguela. He took the name Pepetela, which means ‘eyelash’, during the war of liberation 1961-74 and he has used it since then as a pseudonym. His father had Portuguese parents but he too was born in Angola; his mother’s family had a Portuguese background but had lived in Angola for five gener...
Literary figures
Kent Murdock
Gender: Male
Photographer, amateur detective and former war hero, who, according to author George Harmon Coxe, advanced to become a very well-paid picture director at a major daily newspaper. The cosmopolitan Kent Murdock is tall and attractive with a charming smile, and moves as freely in luxury restaurants as in seedy bars. He lives in a luxurious apartment with his intelligent and beautiful wife Joyce.