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Sample of authors
Muñoz Molina, Antonio
The Spanish author Antonio Muñoz Molina was born at Úbeda in Jaén, Andalucia where he attended the Santo Domingo Savio Jesuit primary school and San Juan de la Cruz upper-secondary school. He then went on to read history of art at Granada and journalism at Madrid.
Muñoz Molina made his literary debut in 1984 with a collection of columns previously published in the daily newspaper Ideal in Gra...
Literary figures
Martin Beck
Gender: Male
Few Swedes can have escaped Inspector Martin Beck of the Stockholm police department. A principal character in Maj Sjöwall’s and Per Wahlöö’s ten police novels, he is the typical meticulous, unhappily married, ulcer-suffering inspector in contemporary crime fiction. He has won international fame through the books and a string of adaptations for film and television.