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Portrait image of Kjell Eriksson Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2013)

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Eriksson, Kjell

The Swedish author and gardener Kjell Eriksson was born in Uppsala, Sweden and grew up in a working-class family on Ymergatan in the district of Almtuna. His father worked on the railway and his mother was a shop assistant. He has been employed as a construction worker and gardener, and he ran his own garden centre part-time before becoming a full-time author.
Kjell Eriksson has been a trade...

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Aristide Pamplemousse

Gender: Male

He is obliged to resign from the police after a scandal which included a large number of ballet girls. Aristide Pamplemousse maintains his innocence, not least in front of his wife Doucette, and becomes a food-tester for a restaurant guide. He travels together with his bloodhound Pommes Frites around France in a suite of farcical detective stories by Michael Bond, eats, and solves murder case in...

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