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Sample of authors
Davidsen, Leif
Leif Davidsen is a Danish author and journalist born in Otterup on northern Funen. He grew up there and in the neighbouring town of Bogerup. After leaving school in 1967, he spent a year as an exchange student in a high school in Middletown, New Jersey. Back in Denmark, he studied journalism, graduating in 1976. He began to write poetry during this period, and some of his poems were published in...
Literary figures
Marcus Didius Falco
Gender: Male
Former Roman soldier who, after having fought in Britannia, settles in Rome as a ‘private informer’ at the end of the 1st century A.D. He marries Helena Justina, a senator’s daughter, and they build a family. In Lindsey Davis’ last (?) novel about him, he seems to die, but there is some uncertainty about that. His role as a problem-solver is then taken over by his adoptive daughter Flavia Albia.