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Sample of authors
Turèll, Dan
Danish novelist and poet who was something as unusual as a well-respected and genuinely popular cultural figure. He was born in Copenhagen as Dan Turèll-Jensen, the oldest of five siblings. When he was nine years old the family moved to the suburb of Vangede where he grew up. In connection with this, the family 1956 shortened the surname to Turèll. He learned to read before he started school, b...
Literary figures
Mrs. Norris
Gender: Female
Her husband died after they had been married a short time, so Mrs Norris – whose first name is Annie, which is rarely used – moved to Scotland and became the housekeeper for a general. The short and somewhat plump elderly lady becomes involved in murder cases which she solves in novels by Dorothy Salisbury Davis with the help of her ward James ‘Jimmie’ Jarvis and Jasper Tully, the prosecutor’s ass...