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Schulman, Ninni
The Swedish author Ninni Schulman was born as Karin Jessica Christina Olofsdotter-Jansson at Rämmen in Värmland province, and she grew up in nearby Lesjöfors. She attended upper-secondary school at Spångbergagymnasiet in Filipstad until 1992. She then moved to Uppsala where she lived while attending the journalism programme at Bona Folkhögskola in Motala between 1993 and 1995. After a few years at...
Literary figures
Boysie (Brian) Oakes
Gender: Male
He is recruited as a spy by mistake, and is regarded as tough, ruthless and bloodthirsty. In actual fact, he is an easy-going, forgetful and cowardly mummy’s boy, who hires gangsters to carry out the acts of violence he is ordered to do. This doesn’t prevent Brian ‘Boysie’ Oakes from making a career. It is simplest to describe him as a parody of James Bond, and John Gardner has written a suite of...