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Zeh, Juli
Juli Zeh is a German author born in Bonn. She studied law and literature in Passau and Leipzig and publishes short stories, essays and novels alongside her work as a lawyer. In 2005, she received the Per Olov Enquist Prize, a new award for young European authors.
Juli Zeh lives in Leipzig. She is married to the photographer and author David Finck. They have two children together.
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Jim Chee
Gender: Male
Jim Chee is a Navajo police officer working in a Native American reservation where he often collaborates with an older (later retired) officer by the name of Joe Leaphorn. When he is not solving crime, Chee likes to study Navajo culture and religion, and he is training to become a hataalii, a shaman. The author, Tony Hillerman, is not from the Navajo tribe, but he grew up in a reservation.