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Portrait image of Kjell Eriksson Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2013)

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Eriksson, Kjell

The Swedish author and gardener Kjell Eriksson was born in Uppsala, Sweden and grew up in a working-class family on Ymergatan in the district of Almtuna. His father worked on the railway and his mother was a shop assistant. He has been employed as a construction worker and gardener, and he ran his own garden centre part-time before becoming a full-time author.
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Bernie Rhodenbarr

Gender: Male

Rhodenbarr is a clever burglar that operates in New York in a string of entertaining novels by Lawrence Block. Over the years, Bernard “Bernie” Rhodenbarr has had to solve a number of crimes, even murder, that he has not committed but that he risks being blamed for. His daytime job involves running a small second-hand bookshop that barely makes a profit, but he invested in it because he thought he...

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