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Sample of authors
Ani, Friedrich
Friedrich Ani was born in Kochel am See, Bavaria. His father was Syrian and his mother was born in Silesia. After graduating from university, Ani moved to Munich where he still lives. He began to write plays for the radio and stage in upper secondary school, some of which he was able to sell. After serving his military service as a civilian at a home for troubled youth, he worked as a crime...
Literary figures
Kouplan
Gender: Male
He calls himself Kouplan, but his real name is Nesrine Amipour, born in 1968, and he is a transsexual guy in a woman’s body. He has trained as a journalist, but is now a refugee without papers in Sweden, homeless and unemployed. He supports himself by collecting drink-cans (and thus being able to cash in on the deposit) and works as a ‘private investigator’ in four novels by Sara Lövestam, while a...