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Lagercrantz, David
David Lagercrantz is a Swedish author and journalist born in Solna and brought up there and in Drottningholm, both near Stockholm. He attended the Kungsholmen upper-secondary school and read philosophy and theology at university before transferring to the University of Gothenburg Department of Journalism, Media and Communication in the 1980s. After graduation he worked, among other things, at...
Literary figures
Simon Templar
Gender: Male
Little is known about his background, but already when he was only 19 years old, Englishman Simon Templar started be called The Saint probably on account of his initials. He is an adventurer and thief who is described as a modern Robin Hood (which in some respects is debatable) but he also features as a detective and, for example, combats organised crime in several of Leslie Charteris’ many s...