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Sample of authors
Davidsen, Leif
Leif Davidsen is a Danish author and journalist born in Otterup on northern Funen. He grew up there and in the neighbouring town of Bogerup. After leaving school in 1967, he spent a year as an exchange student in a high school in Middletown, New Jersey. Back in Denmark, he studied journalism, graduating in 1976. He began to write poetry during this period, and some of his poems were published in...
Literary figures
Mike Hammer
Gender: Male
One of the most severely criticised literary figures of all times is Michael ‘Mike’ Hammer – a cynical, vengeful army veteran who completely lacks any sense of humour, a communist-hater and private detective, who is the protagonist in a row of bestselling novels by Mickey Spillane. Hammer’s only weak point is his love for his secretary Velda. This figure is in part loosely based on a real-life Tex...