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Portrait of Olga Tokarczuk Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/TT (2019)

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Tokarczuk, Olga

Polish author, born in the little village Klenica in western Poland, where her parents were teachers at a residential college, but from the age of one she grew up in the town of Kietrz. As an adult, Olga Tokarczuk moved to Warsaw, trained as a Jungian psychologist and has also worked as a psychotherapist. She has since lived in many places, but is now settled in Wroclaw and Nowa Ruda close to...

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Arab Blake

Gender: Female

Black-haired Arabella ”Arab” Blake is young, beautiful and slim. She is a crack shot, angler and she plays a mean game of hockey. She is married to the antiques dealer Andy, a pensive, quiet gentleman who ends up in some very perilous situations, usually as a result of his adventurous wife. The couple are the principal characters in a series of entertaining novels by Richard Powell.

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