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Portrait image of Frode Grytten Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT (2009)

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Grytten, Frode

Frode Grytten is a Norwegian author and journalist born and raised in Odda, a small industrial community in southwest Norway. His mother was a hairdresser and his father a furniture salesman. He now lives with his wife and children in Bergen where he moved as a student. He began to write at an early age and has, among other things, worked for the Bergen’s Tidende newspaper and the Magasinet I...

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Kommissarie Santos

Gender: Male

It is not clear what Santos’ first name is. He is the head of the police department in a little community outside the city of Salvador in Brazil, where his creator, Kjell Eriksson, also lives nowadays. Santos’ stout wife is called Zelita and they have five children together. Hardened by the corruption in his native country, he prefers to drink beer and lie in his hammock, but now and then he is ob...

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