Photo: Bertil Ericson / TT (1999)
Sample of authors
Marinina, Alexandra
Alexandra Marinina is the pseudonym of Marina Anatolyevna Alekseyeva, a Russian author born in Lviv, western Ukraine. Her father, who died in 1973, was a police officer and her mother a lawyer. When she was still young, the family moved to Leningrad (now St.Petersburg) and then to Moscow. She attended an English-language school in Leningrad, and the Rimsky-Korsakov conservatory in Moscow. She...
Literary figures
Hilke Thorhus
Gender: Female
Strong, physically fit, independent, tough diver, and the main character in two thriller-like novels by Norwegian (female) writer Kim Småge. Little is revealed about the person Hilke Thorhus and her background, but she was born in northern Norway, has a more-or-less permanent relationship with her boyfriend Vidar, and is close to her maternal grandparents. She has strong views and is a pioneer ...