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Sample of authors
Roslund, Anders
Nils Anders Micael Roslund grew up in the county of Scania, Sweden. He lived from time to time at the home of his grandfather where life was quieter than at his own house. Roslund eventually moved to Stockholm with the aim of becoming an author; he still has several unpublished novels lying around. A text by Roslund was included in an anthology entitled Grupp 90 in the early nineties, before he...
Literary figures
Alex Morrow
Gender: Female
Morrow is a working class detective from Glasgow. She is the mother of twins and the protagonist in a series of tartan noir books by Denise Mina. Morrow is not always very forthcoming or correct, but she struggles to combine her job with being a mother and against misogynous bosses and colleagues in a city characterised by increasing class differences and violent crime.