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Sample of authors
Villar, Domingo
Domingo Villar was a Spanish novelist born in Vigo, Galicia, but later he resided in Madrid. He was for many years host for a radio show about food. When he was not writing novels he published short stories in magazines and produced screenplays for film and television. Villar died at only 51 years old due to a stroke.
Domingo Villar published his first novel, Water-Blue Eyes, in 2006. He wrote...
Literary figures
Henk Grijpstra
Gender: Male
Grijpstra is a middle-aged detective in Amsterdam who has teamed up with detective Rinus de Gier in a string of police novels by Janwillem van de Wetering. Grijpstra hails from Friesland. He is an unhappily married man who wanted to become a jazz musician or artist as a young man. He consoles himself by playing a set of drums that mysteriously appeared at the police headquarters one day.