Sample of authors
Vázquez Montalbán, Manuel
Spanish author, journalist, essayist and poet. Vázquez Montalbán was born in Barcelona the same year as General Franco came out of the civil war victorious. He belonged to that generation of Spaniards who did not get to know what it means to live in a democracy until their middle ages. Until his death in 1975, Franco ran a hard dictatorship with censorship and with capital punishment or i...
Literary figures
Den navnløse
Gender: Male
A Danish journalist and private detective, whose name is never actually mentioned in the 13 books about him that Dan Turèll has written. The Nameless is an ordinary, rather worn-out gentleman who lives on his own in a boring flat and comes across crimes in shabby settings, inhabited by odd people. He solves cases with the help of Superintendent Ehlers – and the beautiful lawyer Gitte Bristol, wh...