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Sample of authors
Fossum, Karin
The Norwegian author Karin Fossum was born in Sandefjord where she grew up in a small 1950s bungalow. Her mother was a housewife, her father worked away from home most of the time. Karin was the middle child; she liked to sing, play instruments, draw, read and write. Her mother introduced her to world literature. Karin Fossum left home early to attend Skjebergs folk high school at Østfold. She ...
Literary figures
Sylvia Plotkin
Gender: Female
She is a warm-hearted, lively, middle-aged, cheerful and divorced teacher and author in Greenwich Village in New York, who struggles with a weight problem and dresses in conspicuously colourful clothes. In three books by George Baxt, Sylvia Plotkin solves crimes together with police officer Max Van Larsen. They are in love with each other, but neither of them dares to admit their feelings for...