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Sample of authors
Kallifatides, Theodor
Theodor Kallifatides was born in the village of Molaoi in the Peloponnese in Greece. His father was an elementary school teacher and had come to Greece as a refugee from Turkey. In 1941, Molaoi was occupied by the Germans and his father – who was a socialist – was imprisoned. After his release, the family moved to Athens where Kallifatides matriculated in 1956, and then started Theatre Studies. Af...
Literary figures
Henry Arnold
Gender: Male
Patient, pipe-smoking Scotland Yard detective inspector who solves a whole row of cases in detective stories by Miles Burton (pseudonym for Cecil Street). He has an everyday appearance, and little is known about his private life. Henry Arnold often investigates the same cases as private detective Desmond Merrion, and usually they work together. They are generally of completely different...