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Portrait image of André Bjerke Photo: Klaus Forbregd / NTNU (1959)
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Bjerke, André

André Bjerke was a prominent figure on the Norwegian culture scene in the 1990s. He was an authority on Norwegian post-war literature and language, a translator, editor, critic and renowned chess player, but most of all he was the author of non-fiction, children’s books, crime fiction, essays and poetry, for which he is best known. His erudition earned him the epithet "Renaissance man".
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Fu Manchu

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The satanical, extremely intelligent and powerful gang leader was created by Sax Rohmer (pseudonym for Arthur Henry Ward) and has become something of an icon as regards super criminals – preferably Asians – who aspire to world domination. Fu Manchu has green eyes, a shaved head, long droopy moustaches, and has an arch enemy in British agent Nayland Smith who battles against him with varying suc...

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