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Portrait image of Rolf Börjlind Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2014)

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Börjlind, Rolf

Rolf Börjlind was born in Västra Skrävlinge in Malmö. He started studying at the College of Journalism in Stockholm in 1965, but didn’t complete the course. In the 1960s and 1970s he was active in several cultural fields, for example as a poet, writer, producer and actor. Together with the artist Carsten Regild he started the cultural magazine Vargen as well as the Vargen publishing house, and tog...

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William från Baskerville

Gender: Male

The British Franciscan monk from Baskerville is the main character in just one novel – on the other hand, it is the classic The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. It is not just the name Baskerville which makes one think of Sherlock Holmes: William’s own ‘Watson’, Adso, describes him as tall, thin, strong, supple, with a crooked nose and sharp eyes, and aged around fifty. And who was a brilliant log...

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