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Sample of authors
Dahl, Kjell Ola
Kjell Ola Dahl is a Norwegian author and farmer born in Gjøvik, Oppland, north of Oslo. He grew up in Kristiansand, Oslo and Bærum, where he attended upper-secondary school until 1977. He went on to the University of Oslo, and spent some years travelling, studying and working as, among other things, a janitor, market dealer, taxi driver, teacher, dustman and waiter. During this period he g...
Literary figures
Emma Graham
Gender: Female
She is only twelve years old, but she already works as a waitress in her mother’s old and now rather shabby hotel in the countryside near La Porte in Maryland, and also as a youth reporter for a little local newspaper. But above all, the sharp and humorous – but also very manipulative – Emma Graham is interested in criminal cases, usually old ones. And she solves them in four detective stories for...