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Sample of authors
Indriðason, Arnaldur
The Icelandic crime writer Arnaldur Indriðason, the son of the author Indriði Þorsteinsson, was born in Reykjavik. Arnaldur Indriðason completed his upper-secondary education in 1981 and went on to read history at the University of Iceland, graduating in 1996. He has been a journalist, and between 1986 and 2001 he reviewed film for Iceland's biggest daily newspaper, Morgunblaðið. Deterred by his f...
Literary figures
Simon Ark
Gender: Male
If you were to believe what he implies, he is a Coptic priest who is between 1,500 and 2,000 years old and who was condemned to forever wander the earth and battle against the devil. The tall, sun-tanned Simon Ark does this by solving a number of horror-like crime cases, many of them with an occult or religious background. The explanations in the short stories by Edward D. Hoch are, however,...