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Sample of authors
Meyer, Deon
Deon Meyer is something of a rarity in that he is a South African crime writer who has had his crime novels, written in Afrikaans, translated for the international market. He was born in Paarl in the Cape Province and grew up in Klerksdorp, in north-western South Africa where his father worked in a gold mine. Deon Meyer matriculated in 1976 at Schoonspruit High School in Klerksdorp. He gained a...
Literary figures
Knud Ejnarsen
Gender: Male
A boorish, prejudiced, aggressive and heavy-handed police detective in the Danish ‘Rejsehold’, a sort of Danish FBI. He would have been insufferable if he hadn’t functioned as an excellent complement to his colleague Jonas Mørck, who is his complete opposite. The dialogues between the two in Poul Ørum’s books are deeply human, and the well-built, somewhat overweight Knud Ejnarsen, who sweats quite...