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Sample of authors
Bond, Michael
The British author Thomas Michael Bond was born in Newbury, Berkshire, England. He attended Presentation College, Reading. During the war he served first in the Royal Air Force and then in the British Army. His writing career began in 1945 when his first short story was printed in the London Opinion, and he continued to write short stories and plays while working as a cameraman at the BBC. Bond...
Literary figures
Frank Frølich
Gender: Male
Frølich is a sergeant with the Oslo Police, where – in a suite of novels by Kjell Ola Dahl – he works together with a cynical and disillusioned Chief Inspector Gunnarstranda. The two are each other’s opposites, for better or worse. The somewhat younger, extrovert and impulsive Frølich is especially interested in women which often lands him in embarrassing situations in his private life as well as...