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Portrait image of Emelie Schepp Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2016)

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Schepp, Emelie

Emelie Schepp is considered to be the most successful self-published writer in Sweden, thanks to just one book. Her debut work Marked for Life (2013, Märkta för livet) was turned down by a number of publishers, then self-published and marketed on the internet through her own streamlined marketing devices. The result was so compelling that an established publishing house reissued the book in 2...

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Mma Makutsi

Gender: Female

She struggles with her poor skin and unflattering spectacles, but Mma Grace Makutsi has impressively high grades from her secretarial course and is a lady with skin on her nose and a sharp tongue. In Alexander McCall Smith’s suite of novels about The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency in Botswana’s capital Gaborone, Mma Makutsi is first employed, but after a while becomes a part-owner of the agency. S...

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