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Sample of authors
Vallgren, Carl-Johan
Carl-Johan Emanuel Vallgren had a hard time deciding whether to focus on music or writing. Growing up, he attended various music schools and was fully committed to becoming a musician. If you ask him now what his profession is, he answers storyteller.
Vallgren was born in Linköping in and grew up at Skogstorp near Falkenberg. His mother was a childminder who later trained as a preschool ...
Literary figures
Jules-Joseph Maigret
Gender: Male
French detective inspector and something of an icon within the genre. Maigret was a farmer’s boy who became a cop by chance and quickly earned himself an office at the Paris police headquarters at Quai des Orfèvres. Georges Simenon’s books do not only follow the inspector’s investigations, but also his private life, including a happy, but childless, marriage.