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Sample of authors
Larsson, Åsa
Swedish crime writer and former tax lawyer born in Uppsala. Both parents grew up near the city of Kiruna in the north of Sweden – Åsa Larsson’s grandfather is the Olympic gold-winning skier Erik "Kiruna-Lasse" Larsson – and she moved there with her family when she was four years old. She grew up in Kiruna and spent her summer holidays with her grandmother in the village of Kurkkio in Pajala. When...
Literary figures
Christie (Christine) Opara
Gender: Female
Tough and quick-witted female police officer in New York, a widow after the death of a professional colleague. Christine ‘Christie’ Opara’s father is Greek, her mother Swedish and her husband had a Czech background: her surname should thus be pronounced Opper-uh. She is a 26-year-old slender blonde who lives on her own with her son Mickey.
Dorothy Uhnak wrote three novels about her, and she beca...