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It is 93 years today since Derek Raymond was born.
English author, who during a Bohemian and wandering life occupied himself with a number of different jobs and activities, a by-no-means small part of them criminal. This is also reflected in his books: he is known as a pioneer in the crime-literature sub-genre called ‘British noir’, and which is usually set in environments and among people at the bottom of society. The books have been criticised f...
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Adler-Olsen, Jussi
1950 -
The Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen (his real name is Carl Valdemar Jussi Henry Adler-Olsen) chose, at the tender age of...
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Osman, Richard
1970 -
Richard Osman is an English comedian, TV-personality and programme presenter who made his international writing...
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Spillane, Mickey
1918 - 2006
The American author Frank Morrison Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Irish Catholic father and Scottish...
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Parsons, Julie
1951 -
Writer of detective stories Julie Parsons was born and grew up in New Zealand, to which her Irish parents had emigrated in...
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