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Sample of authors
Sarenbrant, Sofie
Author and freelance journalist Sofie Sarenbrant (born Sjöstedt) grew up on Narebo Gård in Gusum, in Valdemarsvik municipality, together with three siblings. Her mother is a journalist specialising in interior design, and her father is a photographer. Sofie Sarenbrant has spent many summers in the family’s holiday house in Brantevik, a coastal village in the south of Sweden, which gave her the ins...
Literary figures
Mma Ramotswe
Gender: Female
In Botswana’s capital, Gaborone, Mma Precious Ramotswe runs The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. The cases she works with, don’t usually concern major crimes, but are more about solving everyday problems for the clients. Mma Ratmotswe loves tea and her husband, the kind J.L.B. Matekoni, as well as their two adoptive children: all tenderly described by the Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith.