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Sample of authors
Meyer, Deon
Deon Meyer is something of a rarity in that he is a South African crime writer who has had his crime novels, written in Afrikaans, translated for the international market. He was born in Paarl in the Cape Province and grew up in Klerksdorp, in north-western South Africa where his father worked in a gold mine. Deon Meyer matriculated in 1976 at Schoonspruit High School in Klerksdorp. He gained a...
Literary figures
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...