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Sample of authors
Mendoza, Eduardo
Eduardo Mendoza Garriga is a Spanish author who lives in Barcelona. His father was a lawyer and his mother a housewife. He read law in the early 1960s, graduating from the University of Barcelona in 1965. In 1966 he spent a year in London on a scholarship. Mendoza embarked on a legal career in 1967, which he abandoned when he moved to New York as a United Nations translator and interpreter. He...
Literary figures
Morten Martens
Gender: Male
A divorced foreman in a printing works in Trondheim, Norway, with a daughter, an everyday, friendly appearance, and a dream of becoming rich. Morten Martens makes an attempt by printing counterfeit pound banknotes, which results in political unrest internationally, and he has to flee and live under various assumed names. In the books by Fredrik Skagen he often finds himself in trouble on account...