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Sample of authors
Holt, Anne
Anne Holt is a Norwegian crime writer born in Larvik. She read law at the University of Bergen, graduating in 1986. She then worked as a news anchor for the Norwegian broadcasting corporation news programme Dagsrevyen and as a news reporter. She has also worked for the Oslo Police Department (1988–1990). In 1991, she opened her own law firm. When Thorbjørn Jagland, the then prime minister, pr...
Literary figures
Knut Gribb
Gender: Male
Scandinavia’s busiest detective: he has solved cases in more than 1,500 stories! He was created by Stein Riverton (pseudonym for Sven Elvestad), but was taken over by a large number of other authors. Even Swedes, which is why the police officer from Oslo has also worked in Sweden. Riverton’s Knut Gribb stories were later published with the main character changed to Asbjørn Krag, which is why the t...