Sample of Authors
![Portrait image of Pepetela](images/writer/2846/5b56d94f1aab6eb14ea46568c8581b90e0e94cfc9fb1d.jpg)
Pepetela
1941 -
His full name is Artur Carlos Mauricio Pestana dos Santos, an Angolan author, born in the coastal town of Benguela. He took...
Further reading![Portrait image of Edmund Crispin](images/writer/360/6197c23140d1a642fcc468b291f2b5b25234cc58615bf.jpg)
Crispin, Edmund
1921 - 1978
Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym for Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English pianist and organist, composer and author of...
Further reading![Portrait of Pierre Lemaitre](images/writer/6274/609560f0f24d95a9b947799d2c7c426d41b31fb4850dd.jpg)
Lemaitre, Pierre
1951 -
Pierre Lemaitre is one of France’s foremost noir novelists. The rather limited work of the award-winning author has been t...
Further reading![Portrait of Jean-Patrick Manchette](images/writer/3469/60991ec0d6163b0d3438897a577ea3972886d0c6acb68.jpg)
Manchette, Jean-Patrick
1942 - 1995
Jean-Patrick Manchette was a French author credited for having revolutionised noir fiction in France. He was born in...
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