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Sample of authors
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo
Spanish author born in Cartagena in the south-eastern part of the country. Between 1973 and 1994, Pérez-Reverte worked as a war correspondent and reported from most of the then on-going armed conflicts in Europe, Africa and Latin America for Spanish media. He is now a full-time novelist and journalist. He has been a columnist for XLSemanal – a Sunday supplement distributed with a number of Sp...
Literary figures
Kristina Vendel
Gender: Female
Female detective inspector with the police in Huddinge, Stockholm. Her father had fled from East Germany to Sweden; Kristina Vendel’s marriage to Johan is in trouble and eventually breaks up. She has light hair, grey-green eyes, and studied Philosophy before she started at Police College. She has a tough time at work, and is often abused in several ways, Theodor Kallifatides tells us.