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Sigurðardóttir, Yrsa

The Icelandic author and civil engineer Yrsa Sigurðardóttir grew up in Reykjavik. She now lives in the suburb of Seltjarnarnes. She has two children born in the eighties and nineties with her husband, whom she has known since high school. After graduating from the University of Iceland (Háskóli Íslands) in 1988, Sigurðardóttir has worked as a civil engineer, apart from a period in the 1980s when s...

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Artie (Arthur Case) Wu

Gender: Male

He is (according to what he claims are reliable sources) the illegitimate heir to the last emperor of China and thus the pretender to the throne. Arhur Case (Artie) Wu, 186 cm tall and weighing 115 kg, is however married and the father of four (two pairs of twins), and thus obliged – together with Quincy Durant to run the company WuDu Ltd, which has made a speciality of fraud and deception. Ross T...

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