Arnaldur Indriðason
Arnaldur Indriðason has the rare distinction of having won the Nordic Crime Novel Prize two years running. He is also the winner of the highly respected and world famous CWA Gold Dagger Award for the top crime novel of the year in the English language, Silence of the Grave.
Arnaldur’s novels have sold over 14 million copies worldwide, in 40 languages, and have won numerous well-respected prizes and received rave reviews all over the world.
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Born in 1958, Dahl's first novel was published in 1993. He is best known for his series about Oslo detectives Frank Frølich and Inspector Gunnarstranda.
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Yrsa Sigurdardottir
AKA: Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
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Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic writer, of both crime-novels and children's fiction. She has been writing since 1998.
Her début crime-novel "Last Rituals" published in the US in 2007, and the UK in January 2008 was translated into English by Bernard Scudder, and is book 1 of the Thóra Gudmundsdóttir series.
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir graduated from high-school in 1983, finished a B.Sc. in civil engineering from the University of Iceland in 1988 and M.Sc in the same field from Concordia University in Montreal in 1997.
Yrsa now works as a civil engineer for the company Fjarhitun, as well as being a writer.
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Ragnar Jónasson
Ragnar Jonasson is author of the award winning and international bestselling Dark Iceland series.
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His debut Snowblind, first in the Dark Iceland series, went to number one in the Amazon Kindle charts shortly after publication. The book was also a no. 1 Amazon Kindle bestseller in Australia. Snowblind has been a paperback bestseller in France.
Nightblind won the Dead Good Reader Award 2016 for Most Captivating Crime in Translation.
Snowblind was called a "classically crafted whodunit" by THE NEW YORK TIMES, and it was selected by The Independent as one of the best crime novels of 2015 in the UK.
Rights to the Dark Iceland series have been sold to UK, USA, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, Poland, Turkey, South Korea, Japan, Morocco, Po -
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
Eva Björg was born and raised in Akranes, the small town featured in her books. The Creak on the Stairs was her debut novel. The book went on to win the Blackbird Award and became an Icelandic bestseller. In 2021 The Creak on the Stairs won the British Crime Writers Association (CWA) New Blood Dagger.
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Steinunn Jóhannesdóttir
Steinunn graduated from the National Theatre of Iceland's Acting College in 1970, and went on to study French in Toulouse, drama and psychology in Stockholm, and then psychology at the University of Iceland.
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She first worked as an actor and director, also publishing articles in various papers and magazines. She has written plays, film scripts, children's and young adult books, short stories, biographies and documentaries. -
Håkan Nesser
Håkan Nesser is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a number of successful crime fiction novels. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the Glass Key award in 2000. His books have been translated from Swedish into numerous languages.
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Håkan Nesser was born and grew up in Kumla, and has lived most of his adult life in Uppsala. His first novel was published in 1988, but he worked as a teacher until 1998 when he became a full-time author. In August, 2006, Håkan Nesser and his wife Elke moved to Greenwich Village in New York.
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Peter Farris
Called a “serious new talent” by Barnes & Noble, Peter Farris is the award-winning author of Last Call for the Living, The Clay Eaters and The Devil Himself. Published in France to critical acclaim, The Devil Himself won Le Prix 813, Best Foreign Novel at the Beaune International Film Festival, Le Prix Totem Des Jeunes Libraires, was an official selection for the prestigious Grand Prix de Littérature Policière and named a finalist for Le Prix SNCF du Polar. Among other accolades the novel received starred reviews in Rolling Stone, Hebdo and Le Parisien, and was picked one of the best mysteries of the year by ELLE and L'OBS Magazine. Also published in France by Éditions Gallmeister, The Clay Eaters was praised in Le Monde, debuted on the Pal
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Þórdís Helgadóttir
Thordis Helgadottir is an Icelandic author.
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Her work has been nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize, the Icelandic Literature Prize, The Icelandic Women's Literature Prize, Maístjarnan – The Icelandic Poetry Prize and won The Jón úr Vör Poetry Prize. She was the 2019-20 Resident Playwright at The Reykjavík City Theatre.
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Rebecca James
Rebecca James is the author of BEAUTIFUL MALICE, SWEET DAMAGE and COOPER BARTHOLOMEW IS DEAD. She has worked as a waitress, a kitchen designer, an English teacher in both Indonesia and Japan, a barmaid, and (most memorably) a mini-cab telephone-operator in London. Rebecca lives in Warrnambool, Australia, with her partner and their five children.
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Henning Mankell
Henning Mankell was an internationally known Swedish crime writer, children's author and playwright. He was best known for his literary character Kurt Wallander.
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Kristín Ómarsdóttir
Kristín grew up in Hafnarfjörður. She studied Literature and Spanish at the University of Iceland, then pursued Spanish at the Universities of Barcelona and Copenhagen. She has published poetry, novels, short stories and plays.
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Her first publication was the poetry book Í húsinu okkar er þoka (There is Fog in Our House) in 1987, and her first novel, Svartir brúðarkjólar (Black Wedding Dresses) came out in 1992.
Kristín has won many awards for her work, including the DV Cultural Prize for Literature for her 1998 novel Elskan mín ég dey (I Will Die, my Love).
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Martha Grimes
Martha Grimes is an American author of detective fiction.
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She was born May 2 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to D.W., a city solicitor, and to June, who owned the Mountain Lake Hotel in Western Maryland where Martha and her brother spent much of their childhood. Grimes earned her B.A. and M.A. at the University of Maryland. She has taught at the University of Iowa, Frostburg State University, and Montgomery College.
Grimes is best known for her series of novels featuring Richard Jury, an inspector with Scotland Yard, and his friend Melrose Plant, a British aristocrat who has given up his titles. Each of the Jury mysteries is named after a pub. Her page-turning, character-driven tales fall into the mystery subdivision of "cozies." In 1983, Grimes -
Åke Edwardson
Åke Edwardson is a Swedish author of detective fiction, and a professor at Gothenburg University, the city where many of his Inspector Winter novels are set. Edwardson has had many jobs, including a journalist and press officer for the United Nations, and his crime novels have made him a three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers' Award for best crime novel. His first novel to be translated into English, in 2005, was Sun and Shadow. The second, Never End, followed in 2006.
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Jonathan Santlofer
Jonathan Santlofer is the author of five novels and a highly respected artist whose work has been written about and reviewed in the New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, and Arts, and appears in many public, private, and corporate collections. He serves on the board of Yaddo, one of the oldest artist communities in the country. Santlofer lives and works in New York City.
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Halldór Laxness
Born Halldór Guðjónsson, he adopted the surname Laxness in honour of Laxnes in Mosfellssveit where he grew up, his family having moved from Reyjavík in 1905. He published his first novel at the age of only 17, the beginning of a long literary career of more than 60 books, including novels, short stories, poetry, and plays. Confirmed a Catholic in 1923, he later moved away from religion and for a long time was sympathetic to Communist politics, which is evident in his novels World Light and Independent People. In 1955 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Émile Gaboriau
Gaboriau was born in the small town of Saujon, Charente-Maritime. He became a secretary to Paul Féval, and after publishing some novels and miscellaneous writings, found his real gift in L'Affaire Lerouge (1866).
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The book, which was Gaboriau's first detective novel, introduced an amateur detective. It also introduced a young police officer named Monsieur Lecoq, who was the hero in three of Gaboriau's later detective novels. The character of Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned police officer, Eugène François Vidocq (1775–1857), whose own memoirs, Les Vrais Mémoires de Vidocq, mixed fiction and fact. It may also have been influenced by the villainous Monsieur Lecoq, one of the main protagonists of Féval's Les Habits Noirs book series.
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Ófeigur Sigurðsson
Ófeigur Sigurðsson is an Icelandic poet, novelist and translator. He was born in Reykjavík on November 2, 1975.
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Ófeigur studied philosophy at the University of Iceland and graduated in 2007, writing a thesis on the work of Georges Bataille. In 2001 he published his first book of poetry, Skál fyrir skammdeginu, with the avant-garde press Nykur. Ófeigur has to this date published seven books of poetry, four novels and several translations.
Ófeigur was the first Icelander to be awarded the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) in 2011 for the novel Jon.
In 2014 he published the novel Öræfi [Oraefi: The Wasteland] to critical acclaim as well as great commercial success, it was the third best selling book of the year with five printings selli -
Graham Moore
Graham Moore is a New York Times bestselling novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.
His screenplay for THE IMITATION GAME won the Academy Award and WGA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2015 and was nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe.
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His first two novels, THE LAST DAYS OF NIGHT (2016) and THE SHERLOCKIAN (2010), were published in 24 countries and translated into 19 languages. THE LAST DAYS OF NIGHT was named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the American Library Association. THE SHERLOCKIAN was nominated for an Anthony Award. His third novel, THE HOLDOUT, will be published by Random House on February 18, 2020.
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Hallgrímur Helgason
Hallgrímur Helgason is an Icelandic author, painter, translator, cartoonist and essayist. He has studied at the School of Visual Arts and Crafts in Reykjavík and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
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His most famous works are 101 Reykjavík, which was made into a popular film, and Höfundur Íslands (Iceland's Author), which won the Icelandic Literary Prize in 2001. He was nominated for the prize again in 2005 for the novel Rokland (Stormland), along with the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for 101 Reykjavík and Rokland. -
Stefán Máni
Stefán grew up in Ólafsvík and lived there until over the age of 20. After school he did general manual labour and service jobs. To name a few, he worked in the fishing industry, did building work, plumbing, gardening, was a security guard, a cleaner, worked with teenagers and cared for the mentally ill.
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He has now written eight novels, the first coming out in 1996, Dyrnar á Svörtufjöllum (The Door in the Black Mountains). -
Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir
Guðrún Eva's first book, Sóley sólufegri, came out in 1998 in a very limited edition. In the same year the publishing house Bjartur published her short story collection Á meðan hann horfir á þig ertu María mey (While He Watches You, You are the Virgin Mary), to much acclaim. Since then Guðrún Eva has published five novels, a collection of philosophical stories for children published by The National Centre for Educational Materials and a book of poetry. She has also translated novels by foreign authors.
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Birgitta Björg Guðmarsdóttir
Birgitta Björg Guðmarsdóttir (f.1998) er skáld og tónlistarkona frá Reykjavík. Hún gaf út fyrstu skáldsögu sína Skotheld (2018) tvítug að aldri og hefur síðan gert það gott í tónlistarsenunni. Hún er stofnmeðlimur og einn aðaltextahöfundur hljómsveitarinnar Ólafur Kram sem sigraði músíktilraunir 2021. Moldin heit er hennar önnur skáldsaga. Fyrir hana hlaut hún Nýræktarstyrk Miðstöðvar íslenskra bókmennta.
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Skúli Sigurðsson
Skúli er höfundur spennubókanna Stóri bróðir (2022), Maðurinn frá São Paulo (2023), Slóð sporðdrekans (2024) og Ragnarök undir jökli (2025).
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Stóri bróðir hlaut Blóðdropann, íslensku glæpasagnaverðlaunin, og Maðurinn frá São Paulo var tilnefnd þeirra.
Skúli er menntaður lögfræðingur með reynslu af blaðamennsku, mannúðarstörfum hjá Sameinuðu þjóðunum og flóttamannarétti. -
Carlene Thompson
Carlene Thompson is an author of suspense thriller novels.
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Her first book, Black for Remembrance, was published in 1990 by Little, Brown and was well received. Her books are suspense novels, often with romantic elements and many take place in Thompson's home state of West Virginia. Her books often feature animals, which she bases on animals she knows in real life. -
Barbara Nadel
Barbara Nadel is an English crime-writer. Many of her books are set in Turkey. Born in the East End of London, Barbara Nadel trained as an actress before becoming a writer. Now writing full-time, she has previously worked as a public relations officer for the National Schizophrenia Fellowship's Good Companion Service and as a mental health advocate for the mentally disordered in a psychiatric hospital. She has also worked with sexually abused teenagers and taught psychology in schools and colleges, and is currently the patron of a charity that cares for those in emotional and mental distress. She has been a regular visitor to Turkey for more than twenty-five years.
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Fridrik Erlings
Friðrik Erlingsson
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Fridrik Erlings was born in Reykjavik in 1962. From 1980 - '90 he worked as a graphic designer and illustrator. He was a guitar player and songwriter in two Icelandic rock bands; Purrkur Pillnik from '81-'83 and in '86 he founded the alternative rock band The Sugarcubes with Einar Orn and Bjork before leaving music to pursue writing.
Fridrik is the author of several novels, both Fiction and Young Adult novels. He's written numerous lyrics for contemporary pop and rock artists; he has written screenplays for film and television, the most recent the screenplay for 'Thor - Legends of Valhalla', the first feature length 3D-animation film made in Iceland. He has also lectured screenwriting at The Icelandic Film School.
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Jussi Adler-Olsen
Jussi Adler-Olsen is a Danish author who began to write novels in the 1990s after a comprehensive career as publisher, editor, film composer for the Valhalla cartoon and as a bookseller.
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He made his debut with the thriller “Alfabethuset” (1997), which reached bestseller status both in Denmark and internationally just like his subsequent novels “And She Thanked the Gods” (prev. “The Company Basher”) (2003) and “The Washington Decree” (2006). The first book on Department Q is “Kvinden I buret” (2007) and the second “Fasandræberne” (2008). The main detective is Deputy Superintendent Carl Morck from the Department Q and he is also the star of the third volume, “Flaskepost fra P” which was released in the fall of 2009 and secured Adler-Olsen ”Rea -
Patrick Deville
Patrick Deville (born 14 December 1957) is a French writer and studied comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Nantes. During the 1980s, Patrick Deville lived in the Middle East, Nigeria and Algeria. In the 1990s, he regularly visited Cuba and Uruguay.
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In 2011, Lire magazine editors selected Kampuchea as the best French novel of the year. His novel Plague and Cholera (life of the bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin) was one of the most prominent of the literary season (2012), and was a finalist in almost all French book awards. He received the Fnac and the Prix Femina prize for the novel.
His books have now been translated into a dozen languages.
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Halldór Armand
Halldór Armand Ásgeirsson (f. 1986) lauk meistaraprófi í lögum við Háskóla Íslands árið 2012 og hlaut nýræktarstyrk Miðstöðvar íslenskra bókmennta fyrir handritið að fyrstu skáldsögu sinni, Vince Vaughn í skýjunum (2013). Síðan þá hafa komið út Drón (2014), Aftur og aftur (2017), Bróðir (2020) og nú síðast Mikilvægt rusl (2024). Hann hefur einnig sent frá sér esseyjusafnið Við erum bara að reyna að hafa gaman (2022). Bækur hans hafa komið út á fjölda tungumála og pistlar hans um samfélagsleg málefni njóta mikilla vinsælda.
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Halldór Armand Ásgeirsson (b.1986) is one of the young, extraordinary voices on the Icelandic literary scene. He completed a master’s degree in law at the University of Iceland in 2012 and received the Greenshots Award for -
Eiríkur Bergmann
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Michael Crummey
Born in Buchans, Newfoundland, Crummey grew up there and in Wabush, Labrador, where he moved with his family in the late 1970s. He went to university with no idea what to do with his life and, to make matters worse, started writing poems in his first year. Just before graduating with a BA in English he won the Gregory Power Poetry Award. First prize was three hundred dollars (big bucks back in 1987) and it gave him the mistaken impression there was money to be made in poetry.
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He published a slender collection of poems called Arguments with Gravity in 1996, followed two years later by Hard Light. 1998 also saw the publication of a collection of short stories, Flesh and Blood, and Crummey's nomination for the Journey Prize.
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François Kersaudy
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Larry Kahn
Larry Kahn, the author of The Jinx and King of Paine, successfully negotiated the fast-paced world of domestic and international mergers and acquisitions for twenty years, first at a major New York law firm and then at an Atlanta Fortune 500 company. He penned The Jinx while on sabbatical in 1999 and is now devoted to writing fiction full time. Many of his more cynical legal clients and associates have accused him of writing fiction full time for many years. He resides in Atlanta with his family.
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Larry developed a keen interest in social issues while attending Yale Law School, an idealistic spirit that continues to spice his novels. The vision of a colorblind America in his political thriller The Jinx led to endorsements by leaders of the AC -
Caroline De Mulder
Caroline de Mulder, née à Gand en 1976, est un écrivain belge de langue française. Elle réside à la fois à Paris et à Namur où elle est chargée de plusieurs cours de littérature aux Facultés Notre- Dame de la Paix.
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Élevée en Néerlandais par ses parents, elle alterne ensuite des études en français et en néerlandais, primaires à Mouscron, secondaire à Courtrai, philologie romane à Namur, puis à Gand et enfin à Paris.
L'auteur qui aime dire avoir deux langues maternelles, a donc appris à écrire en néerlandais et à lire en français.
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Einar Már Guðmundsson
Einar Már Guðmundsson received a B.A. in Comparative Literature and History from the University of Iceland in 1979, after which he moved to Copenhagen to do graduate work in Comparative Literature at the University of Copenhagen.
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Einar's first book, the collection of poetry Er nokkur í kórónafötum hér inni? (Is Anyone Here Wearing the Korona Line?), appeared in 1980. In 1985 he received first prize in a literary competition held by Almenna Bókafélagið, Book Publishers and Book Club, for the novel Riddarar Hringstigans (The Knights of the Spiral Staircase). His books have been translated into several languages and the widely acclaimed novel Englar alheimsins (Angels of the Universe) received the Nordic Council's Literary Award in 1995. Friðri -
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (aka Emma Woodhouse, Elizabeth Bennett)
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Cynthia Harrod-Eagles was born on 13 August 1948 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, where was educated at Burlington School, a girls' charity school founded in 1699, and at the University of Edinburgh and University College London, where she studied English, history and philosophy.
She had a variety of jobs in the commercial world, starting as a junior cashier at Woolworth's and working her way down to Pensions Officer at the BBC.
She wrote her first novel while at university and in 1972 won the Young Writers' Award with The Waiting Game. The birth of the MORLAND DYNASTY series enabled Cynthia Harrod-Eagles to become a full-time writer in 1979. The series was originally intended -
Dell Shannon
Pseudonym of Elizabeth Linington.
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Barbara "Elizabeth" Linington (March 11, 1921 – April 5, 1988) was an American novelist. She was awarded runner-up scrolls for best first mystery novel from the Mystery Writers of America for her 1960 novel, Case Pending, which introduced her most popular series character, LAPD Homicide Lieutenant Luis Mendoza. Her 1961 book, Nightmare, and her 1962 novel, Knave of Hearts, another entry in the Mendoza series, were both nominated for Edgars in the Best Novel category. Regarded as the "Queen of the Procedurals," she was one of the first women to write police procedurals — a male-dominated genre of police-story writing.
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Alesia Matson
My side hustle is counted cross stitch design. You can find out more about that here: http://metaphorpublications.com/wp/gc...
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Besides my husband Michael, I'm companion to our dogs Anniel and MacDuff, and preferred minion for our cat Libby. We're all living and working in a 38' fifth wheel, and looking forward to a few years of traveling around the country to meet friends, family, and fans.
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Britt Collins
British journalist writes for the Guardian, Sunday Times, The Independent, Condé Nast Traveller, Harper’s Bazaar and Billionaire.com. In between, I volunteer at wildlife sanctuaries around the world.
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Janwillem van de Wetering
Jan Willem Lincoln "Janwillem" van de Wetering was the author of a number of works in English and Dutch.
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R.J. Ellory
Roger began his first novel on November 4th, 1987 and did not stop, except for three days when he was going through a divorce from his first wife, until July of 1993. During this time he completed twenty-two novels, most of them in longhand, and accumulated several hundred polite and complimentary rejection letters from many different and varied publishers.
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He stopped writing out of sheer frustration and did not start again for eight years.
In the early part of September 2001 he decided to start writing again. This decision was based on the realization that it was the only thing he had ever really wanted to do.
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Amanda Vickery
Amanda Vickery is a British historian and television presenter.
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She graduated from the former Bedford College, London (now part of Royal Holloway, University of London) where she completed her PhD in Modern History.
Presently, Vickery is professor of Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London and has held academic posts at Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of York. Her academic interests encompass the Late Modern period from the seventeenth century to the present with a strong emphasis on the Georgian period in England.
She has written widely on social history, literature, the history of romance and the home, politics, law and crime with an emphasis on women's studies and feminism.
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John M. Bowers
Dr. John M. Bowers is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He holds a B.A. from Duke University, an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, and an M.Phil. from The University of Oxford, where he was also a Rhodes Scholar. Before joining the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Professor Bowers taught at the University of Virginia, Hamilton College, the California Institute of Technology, and Princeton University.
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Professor Bowers has received numerous awards for his scholarship, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and a resident scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation's Study Cent -
Böðvar Guðmundsson
Böðvar Guðmundsson was born on the farm Kirkjuból in Hvítársíða, West Iceland on January 9, 1939. After finishing his secondary education in Reykjavík, he studied Icelandic at the University of Iceland and received a Cand. Mag. degree in 1969. He studied further in Germany from 1964 – 1965 and in France 1972 – 1973. Böðvar was a teacher at Réttarholtsskóli in Reykjavík 1962 – 1963, and later taught at Christians Albrechts Universität in Kiel, the secondary school Menntaskólinn við Hamrahlíð in Reykjavík 1969 - 1974, the University of Iceland 1970 – 1972 and the secondary school Menntaskólinn á Akureyri 1974 - 1980. He was a sessional teacher at the Drama Academy of Iceland 1981 – 1983 and held the post of Icelandic guest lecturer at the Uni
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Peter Macinnis
During 2021, Macinnis has republished revised versions of all of his out-of-print books. The website listed above tells you how to get them. In 2024, he published The Lesser of Two Eagles, where you can learn that in an auction, you get something for nodding
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Happy grandfather, travels, writes for adults and youngsters, mainly history or science. Published by the National Library of Australia (Australian Backyard Naturalist May 2012, another book Curious Minds October, 2012, Big Book of Australian History, 2013, 2015, 2017). Talks on ABC (RN), translated into 7 other languages. Winner of the W.A. Premier's Prize for Children's Literature 2013 and other awards.
Writing blog Old Writer on the Block. Google it and say g'day!
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Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (born 1943) is a bhikṣuṇī in the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. She is an author, teacher and founder of the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in Himachal Pradesh, India. She is best known for being one of the very few Western yoginis trained in the East, having spent twelve years living in a remote cave in the Himalayas, three of those years in strict meditation retreat.
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Vicki Mackenzie, who wrote Cave in the Snow about her, relates that what inspired the writing of the book was reading Tenzin Palmo's statement to a Buddhist magazine that "I have made a vow to attain Enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it takes". -
Guðmundur Andri Thorsson
Guðmundur Andri Thorsson was born in Reykjavík on December 31st 1957. He graduated from M.S. high school in 1978 and with a B.A. degree in Icelandic and comparative literature from The University of Iceland in 1983. He did his Cand.mag studies at the same school from 1983 - 1985.
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Guðmundur Andri worked as a journalist and literary critic at DV newspaper and Þjóðviljinn for some time and has for years hosted his own radio program, Andrarímur, at The Icelandic National Radio. He was editor of literary journal Tímarit Máls og menningar from 1986 - 1989 and again from 2009. He also worked as an editor for Mál og menning publishing house (later Edda) from 1987 - 2004. Guðmundur Andri plays the guitar and sings with his companions in the band Hini -
Kiki Tsiligeridou
H Κική Τσιλιγγερίδου γεννήθηκε στην Τσεχία, μεγάλωσε και σπούδασε στην Ελλάδα, εργάστηκε ως δημοσιογράφος σε πολλά Μέσα, έντυπα και μη (εφημερίδες, περιοδικά, ραδιόφωνο, τηλεόραση), ενώ επί πολλά χρόνια ήταν δημοσιογράφος της Δημοτικής Τηλεόρασης Θεσσαλονίκης (ρεπόρτερ, και παρουσιάστρια ειδήσεων και ενημερωτικών εκπομπών). Από το καλοκαίρι του 2017 ζει μόνιμα στην Πράγα.
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Πεζογραφικά βιβλία: «Βυθισμένος ουρανός» (αστυνομικό μυθιστόρημα, πρώτος τόμος από την Τριλογία της Στέλλας Άνταμς, Εκδόσεις Bell).
Βιβλία για παιδιά: «Το μυστήριο του εξαφανισμένου παπαγάλου» (Αρσέν και Φαντομά, Γραφείο Ιδιωτικότατων Ερευνών #1), «Το μυστήριο με τα στοιχειωμένα τυράκια» (Αρσέν και Φαντομά, Γραφείο Ιδιωτικότατων Ερευνών #2), από τις Εκδόσεις Παπαδόπουλος. -
James Hayman
Like one of the heroes of my thrillers, Detective Sergeant Mike McCabe, I’m a native New Yorker. McCabe was born in the Bronx. I was born in Brooklyn. And we both grew up and spent much of our working lives in the New York City before eventually moving to Portland, Maine. However that’s where the similarities end.
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McCabe, after spending a couple of years at NYU Film School, dropped out and decided to join the family business and become a cop first for the NYPD and then for the Portland PD.
For my part, I graduated from Brown University without having any idea whatsoever of what I wanted to do. All I knew was that the one salable skill I thought I possessed was the ability of dreaming things up and writing them down. After looking around I r -
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Leon Goldensohn
Leon Goldensohn was an American psychiatrist who monitored the mental health of the twenty-one Nazi defendants awaiting trial at Nuremberg in 1946.
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Born on October 19, 1911, in New York City, Goldensohn was the son of Jews who had emigrated from Lithuania. He joined the United States Army in 1943 and was posted to France and Germany, where he served as a psychiatrist for the 63rd Division. He replaced another psychiatrist in January 1946, about six weeks into the trials, and spent more than six months visiting the prisoners nearly every day. He interviewed most of the defendants, including Hermann Göring, Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, and Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Fo -
Alejandro Núñez Alonso
Pionero de la novela histórica en España, este escritor gijonés ganó el Premio de la Crítica, el Premio Nacional de Literatura, fue finalista del Nadal, cosechó grandes éxitos de ventas, se adelantó a su época…
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Kristín Helga Gunnarsdóttir
Kristín Helga studied at the University of Barcelona, and later obtained a BA in Spanish and Media Studies from the University of Utah.
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She has worked as a travel and tour guide, been an air stewardess and a reporter on Icelandic news programmes. Since 1998 she has concentrated on writing and journalism.
Her first book, Elsku besta Binna mín (I Love you, Binna my Dearest), came out in 1997 and since then Kristín Helga has become one of Iceland's best loved children's authors.