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Sample of authors
Japrisot, Sébastien
Pseudonym for the French author, translator and filmmaker Jean-Baptiste Rossi who was born in Marseille to Italian parents. After his father left the family, Japrisot was educated at a Jesuit school and then read philosophy at Sorbonne. He was an intelligent, but rebellious student prone to skipping lectures. At the age of sixteen, he began his debut novel, The False Start (1950, Les mal...
Literary figures
Fredrika Bergman
Gender: Female
She was actually going to become a historian like her parents wished, but Fredrika Bergman changed direction and instead became an investigative analyst for the Stockholm C.I.D. She is in her early middle age, has an attractive appearance and a married lover, Spencer, 25 years older than her, and whom she meets every week. In Kristina Ohlsson’s books about her, she usually cooperates with D...