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Piglia, Ricardo
Argentinian novelist, critic, essayist and university lecturer born in the city of Adrogué 200 kilometres south of Buenos Aires. The family moved to Mar del Plata when Ricardo was fourteen. He read history at the National University of La Plata, and from the mid-1960s and for a period of ten years he worked in publishing in Buenos Aires. He was, among other things, in charge of Serie Negra, an ...
Literary figures
William Dougal
Gender: Male
He is working on a doctoral thesis in History, but supports himself with various jobs in Andrew Taylor’s books about him: private detective, freelance editor, working in a security company etc. He is basically amoral, and spends just as much time committing crimes as he does solving them. William Dougal does, however, try to live honourably so that he can marry his girlfriend Celia Prentisse, w...