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Sample of authors
Marklund, Liza
Elisabeth "Liza" Marklund is a successful author and journalist whose crime novels are widely translated and adapted for the screen. She was born the oldest of three children in the village of Pålmark, some 25 kilometres from Piteå in the north of Sweden. She left school at the age of sixteen and moved to Piteå where she worked as a waitress and cleaner. Some years later she travelled around the w...
Literary figures
Hafez el-Assad
Gender: Male
He is simply called Assad by his colleagues in the crime novels by Danish writer Jussi Adler-Olsen. Despite lacking formal qualifications, he is employed in the police department’s so-called ‘cold-case’ group. He generously shares of his knowledge of, for example, various types of weapons, but is not keen to talk about himself. Assad has his roots in an Arab country, probably Syria, and has certa...