Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT (2009)
Sample of authors
Grytten, Frode
Frode Grytten is a Norwegian author and journalist born and raised in Odda, a small industrial community in southwest Norway. His mother was a hairdresser and his father a furniture salesman. He now lives with his wife and children in Bergen where he moved as a student. He began to write at an early age and has, among other things, worked for the Bergen’s Tidende newspaper and the Magasinet I...
Literary figures
Rex Carver
Gender: Male
He isn’t considered to be good enough for the secret service, but when he opened his own detective agency they engaged him anyway – for a fee. He took on the job: Rex Carver adores money just as much as he does women. He has an office in London, where his secretary Hilda Wilkins sits, but he himself is often out and about. With him, Victor Canning created an original hybrid of a secret agent and h...