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Sample of authors
MacLean, Alistair
The Scottish author Alistair Stuart MacLean was born in Shettleston, Glasgow, in a Gaelic-speaking family as Alasdair MacGill-Eain (his Gaelic name was anglicised by the British authorities). His father was a Church of Scotland minister. While the author was still a baby, the family moved to a farm near Daviot in the Highlands. After the death of his father, his mother returned to Glasgow with...
Literary figures
Kai Bugge
Gender: Male
A middle-aged Norwegian psychoanalyst, whom author Bernhard Borge (pseudonym for André Bjerke) partly based on his friend, psychoanalyst Trygve Braatøy. Kai Bugge is calm and logical and is said to be known for his book Das Verbrechen als Erlösung. He is considered to be the first ‘psychological’ problem-solver in Nordic crime fiction, and the three books about him are regarded as classics.