Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2013)
Sample of authors
Eriksson, Kjell
The Swedish author and gardener Kjell Eriksson was born in Uppsala, Sweden and grew up in a working-class family on Ymergatan in the district of Almtuna. His father worked on the railway and his mother was a shop assistant. He has been employed as a construction worker and gardener, and he ran his own garden centre part-time before becoming a full-time author.
Kjell Eriksson has been a trade...
Literary figures
Tad Anders
Gender: Male
A Polish soldier fled to England at the outbreak of the Second World War, married an English woman and had a son, Tadeusz ‘Tad’ Anders. Then he died in the war, and the boy is brought up by the mother. As an adult, Anders became a professional killer for the MI6 secret service until he retired and started to run a pub in a short suite of novels by Ted Allbeury. But his services are still needed…