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Mendoza, Eduardo

Eduardo Mendoza Garriga is a Spanish author who lives in Barcelona. His father was a lawyer and his mother a housewife. He read law in the early 1960s, graduating from the University of Barcelona in 1965. In 1966 he spent a year in London on a scholarship. Mendoza embarked on a legal career in 1967, which he abandoned when he moved to New York as a United Nations translator and interpreter. He...

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Ludwig Licht

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An odd character, he started his career as an agent for Stasi, moved over to the CIA and then tried to make his way in the restaurant business, but instead became a freelance spy. Thomas Engström has created an anti-hero in Ludwig Licht, whose father was a Nazi. He is addicted to alcohol and amphetamines, is always irritated and usually looks rather the worse for wear and in need of a haircut – ‘l...

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