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Cercas, Javier
The Spanish author and essayist Javier Cercas was born in Ibahernando (Cáceres), Extremadura, western Spain. His father was a country vet. When Cercas was four years old, the family moved to Girona in Catalonia where he attended a Catholic school. He spent all his summer holidays in Ibahernando and has continued to be closely attached to his place of birth.
Cercas immediate family were ...
Literary figures
Desmond Merrion
Gender: Male
During the First World War, he worked in the British military intelligence service. Then Desmond Merrion became a private detective and solves a large number of cases that his creator Miles Burton (pseudonym for Cecil Street) has written about. He usually works together with Scotland Yard detective Henry Arnold. Merrion is of short stature, is well-built, looks often as though he is bored and is...