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Sample of authors
Haas, Wolf
Wolf Haas is an Austrian linguist and advertising copywriter who has emerged over the past years as one of the most promising and prize-winning authors writing in German. Several of his books have been adapted for the screen and translated into several languages. He grew up in Maria Alm am Steinernen Meer near Salzburg. Both his parents worked in the restaurant trade. He attended the Borromäum ...
Literary figures
Julie Hayes
Gender: Female
Author Dorothy Salisbury Davis created an unusual female problem-solver in the form of Julie Hayes. She is a middle-aged woman, who was raped in her youth, which led to mental problems. She tests several different professions, including that of a gossip columnist and a fortune teller, and for a long time lives in a dysfunctional marriage with an older man. And she also gets involved in crimes in...