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Sample of authors
Mankell, Henning
Henning Georg Mankell was a Swedish playwright and author. From the 1990s onwards, he won international renown for his crime novels. When Mankell was christened in Stockholm, he was given the name of his grandfather, the composer and critic Henning Mankell (1868–1930). His mother left when he was one year old, and the following year his father moved with his children to Sveg in the province of H...
Literary figures
Sylvia Plotkin
Gender: Female
She is a warm-hearted, lively, middle-aged, cheerful and divorced teacher and author in Greenwich Village in New York, who struggles with a weight problem and dresses in conspicuously colourful clothes. In three books by George Baxt, Sylvia Plotkin solves crimes together with police officer Max Van Larsen. They are in love with each other, but neither of them dares to admit their feelings for...