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Sample of authors
Sigurðardóttir, Yrsa
The Icelandic author and civil engineer Yrsa Sigurðardóttir grew up in Reykjavik. She now lives in the suburb of Seltjarnarnes. She has two children born in the eighties and nineties with her husband, whom she has known since high school. After graduating from the University of Iceland (Háskóli Íslands) in 1988, Sigurðardóttir has worked as a civil engineer, apart from a period in the 1980s when s...
Literary figures
Tad Anders
Gender: Male
A Polish soldier fled to England at the outbreak of the Second World War, married an English woman and had a son, Tadeusz ‘Tad’ Anders. Then he died in the war, and the boy is brought up by the mother. As an adult, Anders became a professional killer for the MI6 secret service until he retired and started to run a pub in a short suite of novels by Ted Allbeury. But his services are still needed…