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Sample of authors
Hermanson, Marie
Marie Hermanson was born and grew up in Sävedalen outside Gothenburg. Her parents were teachers. After completing her Journalism studies in 1977 as well as university courses in Sociology, Literature and Childrens’ Liteature, she worked for a while as a newspaper journalist, including a period at Arbetet.
She has also taught Creative Writing, written textbooks and been a scriptwriter for radio a...
Literary figures
Salvo (Salvatore) Montalbano
Gender: Male
Commissario Montalbano, named by the author Andrea Camilleri for the Spanish crime writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, was born in Sicily, and he works in the fictional town of Vigàta there. He is short-tempered and stubborn, which causes a great deal of problems, but deep down he is a hardworking, energetic professional who is in a long-distance relationship with his fiancé, Livia Burlando.