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Sample of authors
Sarenbrant, Sofie
Author and freelance journalist Sofie Sarenbrant (born Sjöstedt) grew up on Narebo Gård in Gusum, in Valdemarsvik municipality, together with three siblings. Her mother is a journalist specialising in interior design, and her father is a photographer. Sofie Sarenbrant has spent many summers in the family’s holiday house in Brantevik, a coastal village in the south of Sweden, which gave her the ins...
Literary figures
Steve Carella
Gender: Male
A central figure in Ed McBain’s (pseudonym for Evan Hunter) books about the 87th police district in Isola is Stephen ‘Steve’ Carella. He is of Italian extraction, and in one of the early books he marries the beautiful and deaf-mute Theodora ‘Teddy’ Franklin, with whom he has twin sons. Detective Carella is tall, dark and muscular without being athletic; he gives an impression of strength and energ...