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Portrait image of Kerstin Ekman Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2015)

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Ekman, Kerstin

Kerstin Lillemor Ekman (born Hjort) is one of Sweden's foremost living novelists. She was born in Finspång and grew up in Katrineholm. In 1957 she graduated from Uppsala University with the equivalent of an MA. She was a scriptwriter and producer at the documentary film company Artfilm between 1956 and 1959 and she taught at the Wik Folk Highschool near Uppsala between 1966 and 1970.
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Mma Makutsi

Gender: Female

She struggles with her poor skin and unflattering spectacles, but Mma Grace Makutsi has impressively high grades from her secretarial course and is a lady with skin on her nose and a sharp tongue. In Alexander McCall Smith’s suite of novels about The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency in Botswana’s capital Gaborone, Mma Makutsi is first employed, but after a while becomes a part-owner of the agency. S...

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