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Portrait image of André Bjerke Photo: Klaus Forbregd / NTNU (1959)
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Bjerke, André

André Bjerke was a prominent figure on the Norwegian culture scene in the 1990s. He was an authority on Norwegian post-war literature and language, a translator, editor, critic and renowned chess player, but most of all he was the author of non-fiction, children’s books, crime fiction, essays and poetry, for which he is best known. His erudition earned him the epithet "Renaissance man".
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Matt Scudder

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He killed a young girl in an accident, which caused Matthew ‘Matt’ Scudder to leave his job with the police and his family. He started to drink and moved to the notorious ghetto Hell’s Kitchen in New York, but eventually became a ‘sober alcoholic’ and private detective without a licence in a suite of novels by Lawrence Block. Scudder even starts a long-term relationship with the prostitute Elaine...

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