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Sample of authors
Niemi, Mikael
Swedish author, born and raised in Pajala in Tornedalen, near the Finnish border. His grandmother was Saami and his father a Finnish-speaking man from Tornedalen who did not learn Swedish until school. When eighteen, Mikael Niemi moved to Luleå, where he studied electronics and telecommunications in high school. After high school, he had a number of employments next to writing. He worked in a ...
Literary figures
Çetin Ìkmen
Gender: Male
He is a self-willed detective in the police force of his birth city Istanbul, which he loves with all his heart. But he is well aware of the city’s less savoury sides, and the memory of crimes he has investigated has meant that he chain-smokes and also drinks too much – which greatly upsets his Muslim wife Fatma. Together the couple have a lot of children and the number steadily grows in Barbara N...