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Sample of authors
Manotti, Dominique
Behind the name Dominique Manotti hides the professor of Economic History Marie-Noëlle Thibault. It was when she, in her fifties, started to write novels that she began to use the pseudonym.
Thibault was born in Paris. She studied Economic History at the Sorbonne and belongs to a politically active generation that was young and committed during the war in Algeria. She was made aware of the ...
Literary figures
Erlendur Sveinsson
Gender: Male
A detective inspector in Reykjavík, and the main character in a row of police novels by Arnaldur Indriðason. Erlendur – his surname, Sveinsson, is rarely named as is customary in Iceland – is a skilful and empathetic police officer, but rather tired and sometimes anxiety-ridden. One reason is that he left his family when the children were small, for reasons that he can’t himself remember. His ex-w...