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Portrait image of Torkil Damhaug Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2016)

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Damhaug, Torkil

Torkil Damhaug is a Norwegian author and physician born in Lillehammer. His father was an officer of the Norwegian Army and his mother a school principal. His sister, Bente Damhaug (1952–2014), was a well-known actress, author and journalist. In 1964, the family moved to Lørenskog near Oslo where Torkil Damhaug attended school. He read literature and anthropology at the University of Bergen and la...

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Ben Safford

Gender: Male

For an American congressman, Benton ‘Ben’ Safford (Democrat) is an unusually vague and everyday sort of man. He comes from little Newburg in Ohio, doesn’t have a family of his own but still has some relatives back in Ohio – primarily his determined sister Janet. But when the need arrives, he is a clever amateur detective, which is shown in seven novels by R.B. Dominic (pseudonym for Mary J. Latsis...

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