Auster, Paul
1947 - 2024

American author from a Jewish family, born in Newark, New Jersey. His parents, Queenie and Samuel Auster, came from Poland....

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Niemi, Mikael
1959 -

Swedish author, born and raised in Pajala in Tornedalen, near the Finnish border. His grandmother was Saami and his father...

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Tursten, Helene
1954 -

Helene Tursten was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is also the setting she has chosen for Detective Inspector Irene Huss....

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Griffiths, Elly
1963 -

The English author Domenica Maxted – known as a crime writer under the pseudonym Elly Griffiths – was born in London as Dom...

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