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Sample of authors
Sten, Viveca
Viveca Bergstedt Sten grew up in Stockholm. She spent her summer breaks on the island of Sandhamn in the Stockholm archipelago where her family has owned a house since 1917 when her great grandparents acquired the Lagerta family estate from the son of the master pilot. She read and wrote from an early age, she edited the school magazine and at university she contributed to the law students’ m...
Literary figures
Jim Chee
Gender: Male
Jim Chee is a Navajo police officer working in a Native American reservation where he often collaborates with an older (later retired) officer by the name of Joe Leaphorn. When he is not solving crime, Chee likes to study Navajo culture and religion, and he is training to become a hataalii, a shaman. The author, Tony Hillerman, is not from the Navajo tribe, but he grew up in a reservation.