Photo: Lise Åserud / NTB / TT (2021)
Sample of authors
Lillegraven, Ruth
Norwegian poet, novelist and author of books for children, Ruth Lillegraven was born in Granvin in Hardanger, and grew up on a little farm there. She attended Voss gymnasium school 1994–97, and subsequently studied marketing and information technology at Norges Markedshøyskole 1997–2000. She then worked for the Norwegian publishing house (culture and textbooks) Det Norske Samlaget 2001–07, and fro...
Literary figures
Överkommissarie Hazlerigg
Gender: Male
Although Michael Gilbert wrote six novels and around 20 short stories about Hazlerigg, his first name is never mentioned. Very little at all is known about him, but he was born in Norfolk, started as a patrolling constable in London but was promoted and ended up in Scotland Yard. The good chief inspector is tall and heavily built, has a slightly red complexion, smokes a pipe and is not married – a...