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Sample of authors
Vallgren, Carl-Johan
Carl-Johan Emanuel Vallgren had a hard time deciding whether to focus on music or writing. Growing up, he attended various music schools and was fully committed to becoming a musician. If you ask him now what his profession is, he answers storyteller.
Vallgren was born in Linköping in and grew up at Skogstorp near Falkenberg. His mother was a childminder who later trained as a preschool ...
Literary figures
John H. Watson
Gender: Male
Sherlock Holmes’ chronicler and permanent companion in the stories by A. Conan Doyle has given his name to a particular type of character in crime fiction: a detective’s right hand, conversational partner and admiring friend is called ‘a Watson figure’. In books by other authors, Dr Watson has solved cases by himself. The ‘H’ in his name (according to Sherlockian research) stands for Hamish, the S...