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Turèll, Dan
Danish novelist and poet who was something as unusual as a well-respected and genuinely popular cultural figure. He was born in Copenhagen as Dan Turèll-Jensen, the oldest of five siblings. When he was nine years old the family moved to the suburb of Vangede where he grew up. In connection with this, the family 1956 shortened the surname to Turèll. He learned to read before he started school, b...
Literary figures
George Palmer-Jones
Gender: Male
Mr Palmer-Jones is a retired English government civil servant and an enthusiastic amateur ornithologist who travels around Great Britain together with his wife to look at birds. It is a happy marriage, but Palmer-Jones has a problem with a certain inferiority complex and a fear of doing something wrong. It doesn’t, however, prevent him from solving murder mysteries in whodunits by Ann Cleeves.