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Portrait image of Wolf Haas Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2009)

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Haas, Wolf

Wolf Haas is an Austrian linguist and advertising copywriter who has emerged over the past years as one of the most promising and prize-winning authors writing in German. Several of his books have been adapted for the screen and translated into several languages. He grew up in Maria Alm am Steinernen Meer near Salzburg. Both his parents worked in the restaurant trade. He attended the Borromäum ...

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Charles Paris

Gender: Male

Careless, slightly alcoholic actor with more resting periods than working periods. He is of upper middle age, looks a bit the worse for wear but nice all the less, and he likes women, author Simon Brett assures us. Charles Paris lives in a small furnished bedsitter, and likes to socialise with his wife – they did, however, separate several years ago. He is a busy amateur detective even though he s...

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