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Sample of authors
Melo, Patrícia
The Brazilian dramaturge, journalist and author Patrícia Melo is an internationally renowned member of a generation of urban authors that emerged in Brazil in the 1990s. Her crime novels, informed by sex and violence and set in the favelas, Brazil’s urban slums, are especially acclaimed. She researches her stories by interviewing prison inmates and people who live in the slums.
Melo was born in A...
Literary figures
A.J. Raffles
Gender: Male
He is an expert in two areas – cricket and theft. A.J. (as he is usually called) Raffles is the most famous literary master thief of all time, and to this day people speak of a “Raffles heist” when someone commits a rare and sophisticated theft. He is a man of the world, skilled at disguise, and he moves in the best circles. However, E.W. Hornung finally lets him die a hero’s death in the Boer War...