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![Portrait of Rubem Fonseca](images/writer/2804/609aa87f1bf8fed157eee4e015a07dbdc92cbec8de813.jpg)
Fonseca, Rubem
1925 - 2020
Brazilian author, born in Juiz de Fora in Minas Gerais, but at the age of 7 moved to Rio de Janeiro. Fonseca gained a...
Further reading![Portrait image of Leslie Charteris](images/writer/311/6197b6529fc651e202a260cc4b1e547d985ce3473c553.jpg)
Charteris, Leslie
1907 - 1993
Leslie Charteris was born in colonial Singapore as Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin. His father, Suat Chuan Yin, was a wealthy...
Further reading![Portrait image of Jussi Adler-Olsen](images/writer/5693/wm_BR_634fbc0fd07e2809a66fbbf8088d43ccb78a2e489a622.jpg)
Adler-Olsen, Jussi
1950 -
The Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen (his real name is Carl Valdemar Jussi Henry Adler-Olsen) chose, at the tender age of...
Further reading![Portrait image of Dominique Manotti](images/writer/6430/6299f5488414e926f234729deb90d5bae2005ab579cbb.jpg)
Manotti, Dominique
1942 -
Behind the name Dominique Manotti hides the professor of Economic History Marie-Noëlle Thibault. It was when she, in her ...
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