Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2013)
Sample of authors
Eriksson, Kjell
The Swedish author and gardener Kjell Eriksson was born in Uppsala, Sweden and grew up in a working-class family on Ymergatan in the district of Almtuna. His father worked on the railway and his mother was a shop assistant. He has been employed as a construction worker and gardener, and he ran his own garden centre part-time before becoming a full-time author.
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Literary figures
Dickson McCunn
Gender: Male
The author John Buchan’s most original detective is the retired grocer Dickson McCunn, a 60+ man with a romantic heart and a commercially inclined brain. He is withdrawn and his appearance is rather nondescript, and when he becomes involved in criminal cases he surprises his friends as well as his enemies with his resolute actions.