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Liffner, Eva-Marie
Eva-Marie Liffner is a Swedish author and journalist born in Gothenburg and raised in Frölunda in the 1950s, where she inherited her mother’s love of books. When she finished school she worked at Swedish Customs and then at the Gothenburg public library. Before becoming a journalist and literary critic she studied archaeology and intellectual history with a view to post-graduate studies. She has b...
Literary figures
Harry Kvist
Gender: Male
An odd character and an amateur detective: an ex-boxer and prison inmate who works as a debt-collector, is bi-sexual and drinks too much. The setting is Stockholm in the 1930s in a trio of novels by Martin Holmén. Harry Kvist is single, with few friends (but a lot of acquaintances), not particularly bright, but well-built, and he all too often uses his fists when trouble arises.