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Portrait of Peter May Photo: Guillem Lopez / Camera Press / TT (2016)

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May, Peter

Writer of crime novels and TV manuscripts who received many prizes. He was born in Glasgow in Scotland, but lived in France since 2001 and became a French citizen in 2016. Peter May started his schooling in 1956 at Carolside Primary School in Glasgow, and decided already then to become a writer. The idea was not encouraged by his teachers, and he was later thrown out of a school after a conflict...

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Kouplan

Gender: Male

He calls himself Kouplan, but his real name is Nesrine Amipour, born in 1968, and he is a transsexual guy in a woman’s body. He has trained as a journalist, but is now a refugee without papers in Sweden, homeless and unemployed. He supports himself by collecting drink-cans (and thus being able to cash in on the deposit) and works as a ‘private investigator’ in four novels by Sara Lövestam, while a...

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