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Sample of authors
Dahl, Kjell Ola
Kjell Ola Dahl is a Norwegian author and farmer born in Gjøvik, Oppland, north of Oslo. He grew up in Kristiansand, Oslo and Bærum, where he attended upper-secondary school until 1977. He went on to the University of Oslo, and spent some years travelling, studying and working as, among other things, a janitor, market dealer, taxi driver, teacher, dustman and waiter. During this period he g...
Literary figures
Gereon Rath
Gender: Male
A police detective and war veteran in Köln, who after a fatal mistake in his work in 1929 is transferred to Berlin. According to author Volker Kutscher, Gereon Rath is between 30 and 40 years old, slim, skilled, stubborn and a morphine addict on account of traumatic war experiences. In Berlin he meets police stenographer Charlotte ‘Charly’ Ritter; they start a relationship, get married and build a...