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Sample of authors
Småge, Kim
Kim Småge is a pseudonym used by the Norwegian author Anne Karin Thorshus who was born in Trondheim. After having completed her education in 1964, she worked as a secretary in Trondheim. She studied economics at the Trondheim Økonomiske Gymnas and then read Norwegian, English and Geography at the University of Trondheim, graduating in 1977. In 1980, she became Norway’s first female diving ins...
Literary figures
Gavin Troy
Gender: Male
Troy is a detective in the fictive English county of Midsomer, and Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby’s right hand. In Caroline Graham’s novel, Tory is a clever and intelligent police officer, but his prejudices – he is, for example, a homophobe – and rather abrupt manner speak against him. In the TV series Midsomer Murders, his personality has been ‘corrected’ and he is decidedly more sympathetic, and i...