Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT (2009)
Sample of authors
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...
Literary figures
Christie (Christine) Opara
Gender: Female
Tough and quick-witted female police officer in New York, a widow after the death of a professional colleague. Christine ‘Christie’ Opara’s father is Greek, her mother Swedish and her husband had a Czech background: her surname should thus be pronounced Opper-uh. She is a 26-year-old slender blonde who lives on her own with her son Mickey.
Dorothy Uhnak wrote three novels about her, and she beca...