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Sample of authors
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo
Spanish author born in Cartagena in the south-eastern part of the country. Between 1973 and 1994, Pérez-Reverte worked as a war correspondent and reported from most of the then on-going armed conflicts in Europe, Africa and Latin America for Spanish media. He is now a full-time novelist and journalist. He has been a columnist for XLSemanal – a Sunday supplement distributed with a number of Sp...
Literary figures
Edward Leithen
Gender: Male
A Scottish lawyer and Conservative member of parliament, as well as a devoted fly-fisherman, the main character in a suite of crime adventures by John Buchan. Sir Edward Leithen is a stylish man and moves in the best of circles, but falls ill with tuberculosis. He does, however, take on a final case, and travels to Canada where he solves the problem and before he dies also helps a native tribe...