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Sample of authors
Rivas, Manuel
Manuel Rivas is a Spanish novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and journalist born in La Coruña, Galicia in northwest Spain. His father was a mason who also played in a dance band; his mother was a milk seller who told her son to get himself a job where he did not have to get wet, so he went to university. The family moved to a rural, working class district on the outskirts of La Coruña when R...
Literary figures
Inger Johanne Vik
Gender: Female
She is a criminal psychologist and lawyer who has worked for the American FBI, but who returned to Norway and Oslo where Detective Inspector Yngvar Stubø turns to her for help with a case. Which he gets – and Vik and Stubø get married too, and eventually have children as well in the novels that Anne Holt has written about the couple. Vik is also the main character in the Swedish TV series Modus.