Inkeri Markkula

Inkeri Markkula (born in 1977) is a Finnish writer and biologist whose research work consists of studying the northern nature. Markkula’s research has taken her to the Arctic regions, and she has lived in Lapland, Iceland and Svalbard.

The author’s debut novel Two People per Minute (2016) was nominated for the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize as one of the best debut novels of the year.

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Barbara Bauer

Író vagyok, de minden az olvasással kezdődött. Mert a könyv menedék, miközben kinyitja előttem a világot. Nem ismer távolságot, sem időt, ahol a fikció is valóság és a valóságot is átjárja a képzelet. Minden egyes könyvvel egy másik világba léphetek. Aztán egy napon rájöttem, én is akarok teremteni másik világot. Másik életet. Másik valóságot. Azóta író vagyok.

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Keigo Higashino

Associated Names:
* Keigo Higashino
* 東野圭吾 (Japanese)
* 東野圭吾 (Traditional Chinese)
* ฮิงาชิโนะ เคโงะ (Thai)

Keigo Higashino (東野圭吾) is one of the most popular and biggest selling fiction authors in Japan—as well known as James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy are in the USA.

Born in Osaka, he started writing novels while still working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co.　(presently DENSO). He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize, which is awarded annually to the finest mystery work, in 1985 for the novel Hōkago (After School) at age 27. Subsequently, he quit his job and started a career as a writer in Tokyo.

In 1999, he won the Mystery Writers of Japan Inc award for the novel Himitsu (The Secret), which was translated into English by Kerim Yasar and pu
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Guillaume Musso

One of the most popular authors in France today. From his early childhood with reading books and plays, Guillaume Musso became convinced that one day, he too would write novels. After finishing high school in France, Guillaume Musso left for the United States at the age of 19. He spent several months in New York City, living with other young foreigners and earning his money by selling ice-cream. He came home to France with his head filled with ideas for novels. The readers can easily see the influence his time in the United States has had on him, as the action in his books takes place overseas. He currently teaches in a high school in the south of France, all the while working on his novels. His first published novel was with Editions Anne
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Pirkko Saisio

See also Saisio's pseudonyms: Jukka Larsson, Eva Wein

Pirkko Saisio (s. 16. huhtikuuta 1949 Helsinki) on suomalainen kirjailija, näyttelijä ja ohjaaja. Hän on kirjoittanut myös salanimillä Jukka Larsson ja Eva Wein. Saisiolla on laaja kirjallinen tuotanto, joka romaanien ja näytelmien ohella käsittää monenlaisia tekstejä elokuvakäsikirjoituksista aina balettilibretoihin asti. Saisio on kirjoittanut näytelmiä niin teatteriin kuin televisioonkin, ja lisäksi hän ohjaa ja näyttelee itsekin. Saisio suoritti Suomen Teatterikoulun näyttelijän tutkinnon 1975 ja toimi Teatterikorkeakoulun dramaturgian professorina 1997–2002.
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Ingeborg Arvola

Born in Honningsvåg in 1974, grew up in Tromsø and is currently living in Oslo, Norway. Has worked on a lot of different project, including theater plays and working as text writer for the very popular childrens programme Kometkameratene on NRK. Now living in Oslo.

Awards: Cappelenprisen in 2004 and Havmannsprisen (Ingen dager uten regn) in 2008.
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Helmi Kekkonen

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Satu Rämö

My name is Satu Rämö. I'm a Finnish-Icelandic author of the nordic blue crime book series called HILDUR.

Here you can find my interview in Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/202...

I was born in Finland in 1980 and moved to Iceland twenty years ago and started writing books.

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My crime fiction debut Hildur (2022) changed the game for me as an author, totally. HILDUR-series is Icelandic-Finnish nordic blue crime fiction that takes place in a small village in the Westfjords of Iceland. Nordic blue is similar to nordic noir but more human. The stories ar
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Juhani Karila

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Aimée de Jongh

Aimée de Jongh (1988) is a comic author, animator and illustrator from the Netherlands, with a large variety of drawing styles. Aimée received her degree in Animation at the Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, KASK Ghent and at the Gobelins Summer School Paris.

She debuted with Snippers, a humorous daily comic series for the Dutch newspaper Metro. Her first graphic novel The Return of the Honey Buzzard won the Prix Saint-Michel and was adapted to film. After this, Aimée decided to focus on graphic novels and animation. Her recent graphic novels are TAXI!, an autobiography about taxi rides, and Blossoms in Autumn, about love after 60, written by the Belgian comic author Zidrou.

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Tommi Kinnunen

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Pajtim Statovci

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