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Sample of authors
Piñeiro, Claudia
Argentinian author born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires. Claudia Piñeiro started reading social sciences, but she switched to economics and became a chartered accountant instead. During a business trip in 1999 she spotted a small advert for a novel writing competition announced by the Tusquets publishing house, and since she had by then grown tired of her job she immediately decided to take time off to ...
Literary figures
V.I. Warshawski
Gender: Female
Victoria Iphigenia Warshawski is a hardboiled private detective in Chicago. She often rescues people on the margins of society and she often she rails against crooked politicians, bigotry, and toned-down political scandals. Her father is Polish and her mother was Jewish – and she has more lovers than she has friends according to the author, Sara Paretsky.