Samuel Bjørk
Samuel Bjørk is the pen name of Norwegian novelist, playwright and singer/songwriter Frode Sander Øien.
Bjørk’s first installment in the Mia and Munch Series, I’m Traveling Alone, is an international success story that has gained critical acclaim and captivated readers all over the world, including hitting #1 on German newspaper Der Spiegel‘s bestseller list.
Samuel Bjørk has been compared to the likes of both Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbø, and has proved himself to be a force to be reckoned with in the crime genre.
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Bettine Vriesekoop
Bettine Vriesekoop is a former table tennis player from the Netherlands. Between 1977 and 2002 she played at top level in Europe. She retired from competition in 1997. While training in China she became interested in the culture and then studied Chinese language and philosophy in Leiden. Between 2006 and 2009 she worked in Beijing as a freelance correspondent for several Dutch newspapers including NRC Handelsblad.
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Unni Lindell
Unni Maria Lindell is a Norwegian author, best known for her crime novels, who has also written a collection of poems and several children's and young adult books.
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Lindell worked as a journalist before she became an author. Her first book, Den grønne dagen ("The green day") was published in 1986. One of Lindell's most prominent characters is detective Cato Isaksen.
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Søren Sveistrup
Søren Sveistrup is an internationally acclaimed scriptwriter of the Danish television phenomenon The Killing which won various international awards and sold in more than a hundred countries. More recently, Sveistrup wrote the screenplay for Jo Nesbø's The Snowman.
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Jonas Jonasson
After a long career as a journalist, media consultant and television producer, Jonas Jonasson decided to start a new life. He wrote a manuscript, he sold all his possessions in Sweden and moved to a small town by Lake Lugano in Switzerland, only a few meters from the Italian border.
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Anya Niewierra
Anya Niewierra is de schrijfster van de thrillers Vrij uitzicht en Het Dossier. Ze woont, werkt, schildert en schrijft in Zuid-Limburg en in de Pyreneeën. Zowel haar jeugdjaren binnen de serene abdijmuren van Gymnasium Rolduc als het deels wonen in Frans Catalonië hebben Niewierra geïnspireerd tot het schrijven van Het bloemenmeisje.
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Frank Krake
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Hari Kunzru
Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru (born 1969) is a British novelist and journalist, author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission and My Revolutions. Of mixed English and Kashmiri Pandit ancestry, he grew up in Essex. He studied English at Wadham College, Oxford University, then gained an MA in Philosophy and Literature from Warwick University. His work has been translated into twenty languages. He lives in New York City.
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Henrik Fexeus
Henrik Fexeus is a Swedish mentalist, author and TV-host. Since 2005 he is a frequent guest, as expert on body language and non-verbal communication, in television and newspapers including for Expressen at the Swedish Crown Princess Victoria's wedding and for Aftonbladet during the US SuperTuesday 2016.
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Henrik has a BA in Philosophy from Stockholm University and has worked in communications and marketing.
Fexeus has written seven books on practical psychology and influence. His first book, The art of reading minds, was released in 2007 by Forum Bokförlag. In 2010, it received the Pocket Platinum sales award. His second book, When you do what I want, was released in 2008 and received in 2010 the Pocket Gold award.
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Arne Dahl
Arne Dahl is the pen name of Jan Arnald, an internationally known Swedish crime author and literary critic.
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His writing can also be seen in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. He published Barbarer (2001) and Maria och Artur (2006) under his own name, but under his pseudonym he has written the A-gruppen (Intercrime) series, involving the A-team, a group highly trained in dealing with criminal cases in Sweden. -
Erik Axl Sund
Erik Axl Sund is the pen name of Swedish author duo Jerker Eriksson (b. 1974) and Håkan Axlander Sundquist (b. 1965). Håkan is a sound engineer, musician and artist. Jerker has been the producer of Håkan's electro punk band iloveyoubaby! and currently works as a librarian in a prison. Erik Axl Sund is the author of three novels so far: Crow Girl (2010), Hunger Fire (2011) and Pythia's Instructions (2012). Together, they form the trilogy about Victoria Bergman. These dark and addictive novels became an immediate success, both critical and commercial. The Victoria Bergman trilogy is the latest literary phenomenon in Swedish crime fiction and a milestone in contemporary crime fiction in general.
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Josef Lada
Josef Lada was a Czech painter and writer.
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He is best known as the illustrator of Jaroslav Hašek's World War One novel The Good Soldier Švejk. He produced nearly 600 cartoons of the Švejk characters, depicting Austria-Hungary officers and civil servants as incompetent, abusive and often drunk.
Born in the small village of Hrusice in a cobbler's family, he went to Prague at the age of 14 to become an apprentice binder. He loved to draw and paint. Entirely self-taught, he created his own style as a caricaturist for newspapers, and later as an illustrator. He wrote and illustrated the adventures of Mikeš, a little black cat who could talk.
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José Carlos Somoza
José Carlos Somoza is a Spanish author born in Havana, Cuba. In 1960 his family moved to Spain after being exiled for political reasons. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in psychiatry, but he gave up medicine in order to be a full-time writer in 1994.
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Anna van den Breemer
Anna van den Breemer (1984) is journalist voor de Volkskrant. Ze publiceerde drie non-fictieboeken, waarmee ze haar scherpe pen en observatievermogen bewees. Met haar fictiedebuut Het perfecte zusje (2023, 5de druk) zette ze zich direct en overtuigend als thrillerauteur op de kaart.
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Ian Buruma
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Charles Graeber
Charles Graeber is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of the Edgar Award nominated "THE GOOD NURSE" and the British Medical Association book of the year shortlisted "THE BREAKTHROUGH" (both published by Twelve).
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He is also a contributor to numerous publications including Wired, The New Yorker, GQ, New York Magazine, Outside Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek and The New York Times. His writing has been honored with the Overseas Press Club award for the year's Outstanding International Journalism, a New York Press Club Prize, several National Magazine Award-nominations, and inclusion in anthologies including The Best American Crime Writing, The Best American Science Writing, The Best American Business Writing, The -
Alex Michaelides
Alex Michaelides was born and raised in Cyprus. He has an M.A. in English literature from Trinity College, Cambridge University, and an M.A. in screenwriting from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. The Silent Patient was his first novel and was the biggest-selling debut in the world in 2019. It spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list and sold in a record-breaking forty-nine countries. Alex lives in London.
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Đorđe Bajić
Đorđe Bajić (born in Belgrade, on July 21, 1975) is a Serbian film and literary critic and writer from Belgrade, with a master’s degree in art and media theory. He wrote for Popboks, Yellow Cab, Huper, City Magazine, NIN’s cultural section... Currently, he pens film reviews and articles about art and culture for Vreme. Together with Zoran Janković and Ivan Velisavljević, he is the author of the book A Critical Guide to Serbian Film 2000—2017 (2018) and The Best Serbian Films of the 21st Century (2019). His story Košuta (Doe) is included in the anthology BalkaNoir (2018), published in Greece, and the story Besnilo 2.0 (Rabies 2.0) is featured in an anthology dedicated to Borislav Pekić, Pre vremena čuda (Before the Time of Miracles, 2020, La
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Nathalie Pagie
Nathalie Pagie is thrillerauteur en communicatieadviseur. Ze woont met haar man en twee kinderen in Breda. In 2013 debuteerde zij met De Toneelclub en een jaar later verscheen De Campus, waarvan inmiddels al meer dan 15.000 exemplaren zijn verkocht. Paradijsvogels is de eerste in een serie over journalistenduo Tara Linders en Diego Martinez.
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Elli H. Radinger
Elli H. Radinger is a German free journalist and author.
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World Press Photo
It all began in 1955 when a group of Dutch photographers organized an international contest (“World Press Photo”) to expose their work to a global audience.
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For six decades, the World Press Photo Foundation has been working from its home in Amsterdam as an independent, nonprofit organization. In that time, the world has changed continuously, and new developments in the media and technology have transformed journalism and storytelling. Our mission has expanded, and we draw on our experience to guide visual journalists, storytellers, and audiences around the world through this challenging and exciting landscape.
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Dominik Dán
Dominik Dán je slovenský spisovateľ detektívnych románov. Píše pod pseudonymom, v skutočnosti nemá 56 rokov (aj keď tento údaj bol vytvorený celkom náhodne pri chybnom zadaní spisovateľovho dátumu narodenia pri vydávaní knihy) a v súčasnosti autorsky spolupracuje pri tvorbe nového slovenského seriálu Kriminálka Staré mesto.
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Mikaela Bley
Mikaela Bley is born 1979, she lives in Stockholm with her husband and two children. She worked as a producer for the TV4 television channel and now she is a full-time writer. She debuted with Lycke. After the incredible international success of the book, the author is working on a series starring the obstinate journalist Ellen Tamm.
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Jens Henrik Jensen
Jens Henrik Jensen, forfatter og journalist, slog igennem med Kazanski-trilogien ”Kællingen i Kraków” (1997), ”Hofnarren i Murmansk” (1999) og ”Ulven i Banja Luka” (2002)- der netop er nyudgivet som paperback. Han udgav derefter bestsellerseriem om kriminalassistent Nina Portland, ”Økseskibet” (2004), ”Kulmanden” (2007) og ”Spøgelsesfangen” (2010). I 2012 udkom ”De hængte hunde”, der er første bog i serien om krigsveteranen Niels Oxen. Jens Henrik Jensens bøger er udgivet i en række europæiske lande.
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Camilla Grebe
Camilla Grebe is an entrepreneur and a former publisher and CEO. She lives in Stockholm, Sweden. Her sister is Åsa Träff.
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Jørn Lier Horst
Jorn Lier Horst (born in Bamble, Telemark 1970) is a former Senior Investigating Officer at the Norwegian police force. He made his literary debut as a crime writer in 2004 and is considered one of the foremost Nordic crime writers.
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His series of mystery novels starring chief inspector William Wisting provides a detailed and authentic insight into how criminal cases are investigated and how it affects those involved, whether private or professional. The books represent a simple and accurate picture of the modern Nordic societies and is characterized by political and social commentary subtext. -
Judith Visser
Judith Visser schreef al meer dan tien boeken en is de laatste jaren vooral bekend door haar autobiografische romans Zondagskind en Zondagsleven. Zondagskind werd bekroond met de Hebban Literatuurprijs. Zondagskracht is het langverwachte derde en laatste deel in het drieluik over Jasmijn Vink. Judith woont met haar man en drie wolfhonden in Rockanje aan Zee.
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Sara Sheridan
Born in Edinburgh. I'm a complete swot - love books always have! Currently obsessed with late Georgian/ early Victorian culture, the subject of several of my novels, and with 1950s Britain for my Mirabelle Bevan murder mystery series set across the UK - and even one in Paris. Occasionally write tie-in books for historical dramas on TV, children's picture books and short stories, mostly for charitable causes.
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Wilhelm Hauff
Wilhelm Hauff was a German poet and novelist best known for his fairy tales.
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Educated at the University of Tübingen, Hauff worked as a tutor and in 1827 became editor of J.F. Cotta’s newspaper Morgenblatt. Hauff had a narrative and inventive gift and sense of form; he wrote with ease, combining narrative themes of others with his own. His work shows a pleasant, often spirited, wit. There is a strong influence of E.T.A. Hoffmann in his fantasy Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren des Satans (1826–27; “Pronouncements from the Memoirs of Satan”). Hauff’s Lichtenstein (1826), a historical novel of 16th-century Württemberg, was one of the first imitations of Sir Walter Scott. He is also known for a number of fairy tales that were published in his Märche -
Jeroen Windmeijer
Jeroen Windmeijer (1969) is antropoloog (Ph.D.) en oud-docent Godsdienst en Maatschappijleer. In 2015 debuteerde hij succesvol met De bekentenissen van Petrus, een historisch-religieuze thriller - inmiddels heruitgegeven onder de titel Het Petrusmysterie.
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Hij voltooide drie trilogieën (HarperCollins Holland): de Leidse trilogie (Het Petrusmysterie, Het Pauluslabyrint en Het Pilgrim Fathers Complot), de Zuid-Amerika trilogie (De Offers/ Bolivia, De Genesissleutel/ Peru en De Stenen Goden/ Paaseiland) en de Sterke Vrouwen trilogie in samenwerking met Jacob Slavenburg (Het Isisgeheim, Het Evacomplex en De Magdalenacodex).
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Mathijs Deen
Mathijs Deen (1962) is een Nederlandse schrijver, radiomaker (VPRO-radioprogramma OVT) en voorlezer van audioboeken.
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Voor Over Oude Wegen ontving Deen in 2018 de Halewijnprijs. Het Lichtschip (La Nave Faro) is door de havenautoriteiten van Livorno bekroond vanwege zijn verdienste als verspreider van kennis over de zeevaart. -
Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Thomas Olde Heuvelt (1983) is the international bestselling author of HEX. The much-praised novel was published in over twenty-five countries around the world and is currently in development for TV by Gary Dauberman. Olde Heuvelt, whose last name in Dutch dialect means “Old Hill,” was the first ever translated author to win a Hugo Award for his short story "The Day the World Turned Upside Down".
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His new novel ECHO will be out with Nightfire Books in the US and Hodder & Stoughton on February 8, 2022. International publication of his novel ORACLE, which topped all the bestseller charts in The Netherlands in March '21, will follow soon thereafter.
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Joel Brinkley
A Pulitzer Prize winning reporter at the New York Times for many years.
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Sanne de Boer
Sanne de Boer is a Dutch journalist who has lived in Southern Italy since 2006. She is the first foreign journalist based in Calabria to write about the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia, and regularly appears on TV and radio as a mafia expert. Her first book, Mafiopoli, was published originally in Dutch in 2020 and nominated for the ‘Brusseprijs’, a prestigious award for the best book of journalism. A German translation followed (title: 'Ndrangheta) and in 2024, an updated edition of Mafiopoli was published in English.
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Jo Nesbø
Jo Nesbø is a bestselling Norwegian author and musician. He was born in Oslo and grew up in Molde. Nesbø graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in economics. Nesbø is primarily famous for his crime novels about Detective Harry Hole, but he is also the main vocals and songwriter for the Norwegian rock band Di Derre. In 2007 Nesbø also released his first children's book, Doktor Proktors Prompepulver.
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Lars Kepler
Lars Kepler is the pseudonym of critically acclaimed husband and wife team Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril, authors of the No. 1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series. With seven installments to date, the series has sold 13 million copies in 40 languages. The Ahndorils were both established writers before they adopted the pen name Lars Kepler, and have each published several acclaimed novels.
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Harlan Coben
Harlan Coben is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of the world's leading storytellers. His suspense novels are published in forty-five languages and have been number one bestsellers in more than a dozen countries with seventy-five million books in print worldwide.
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His books have earned the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards, and many have been developed into Netflix Original Drama series, including his adaptations of The Stranger, The Innocent, Gone for Good and The Woods. His most recent adaptation for Netflix, Stay Close, premiered on December 31, 2021 and stars Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt, and Richard Armitage. -
Simone van der Vlugt
Simone van der Vlugt is an acclaimed Dutch author, well known for her young adult novels. The reunion was her debut novel for adults, it sold over 200,000 copies and was translated into German, French and English.
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Nicci French
Note: (Nicci Gerrard and Sean French also write separately.)
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Nicci Gerrard was born in June 1958 in Worcestershire. After graduating with a first class honours degree in English Literature from Oxford University, she began her first job, working with emotionally disturbed children in Sheffield. In that same year she married journalist Colin Hughes.
In the early eighties she taught English Literature in Sheffield, London and Los Angeles, but moved into publishing in 1985 with the launch of Women's Review, a magazine for women on art, literature and female issues.
In 1987 Nicci had a son, Edgar, followed by a daughter, Anna, in 1988, but a year later her marriage to Colin Hughes broke down.
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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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Jørn Lier Horst
Jorn Lier Horst (born in Bamble, Telemark 1970) is a former Senior Investigating Officer at the Norwegian police force. He made his literary debut as a crime writer in 2004 and is considered one of the foremost Nordic crime writers.
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His series of mystery novels starring chief inspector William Wisting provides a detailed and authentic insight into how criminal cases are investigated and how it affects those involved, whether private or professional. The books represent a simple and accurate picture of the modern Nordic societies and is characterized by political and social commentary subtext. -
Jo Nesbø
Jo Nesbø is a bestselling Norwegian author and musician. He was born in Oslo and grew up in Molde. Nesbø graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in economics. Nesbø is primarily famous for his crime novels about Detective Harry Hole, but he is also the main vocals and songwriter for the Norwegian rock band Di Derre. In 2007 Nesbø also released his first children's book, Doktor Proktors Prompepulver.
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* Harry Hole
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Judith Visser
Judith Visser schreef al meer dan tien boeken en is de laatste jaren vooral bekend door haar autobiografische romans Zondagskind en Zondagsleven. Zondagskind werd bekroond met de Hebban Literatuurprijs. Zondagskracht is het langverwachte derde en laatste deel in het drieluik over Jasmijn Vink. Judith woont met haar man en drie wolfhonden in Rockanje aan Zee.
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Ruth Lillegraven
Ruth Lillegraven was born in 1978 in Hardanger, Norway, where she grew up on a small farm. She debuted as an author with a poetry collection in 2005. Since then she has written sixteen books, including children's books, several poetry collections, a novel, and two plays. Her work has been translated into Dutch, English, French, German, and Spanish. Among other prizes, she has won both the Brage Prize and the Nynorsk Literature Prize (for the poetry collections Urd and Sickle). Her first crime novel is the prize-winning Everything Is Mine, which has become an international bestseller.
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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 -
Henrik Fexeus
Henrik Fexeus is a Swedish mentalist, author and TV-host. Since 2005 he is a frequent guest, as expert on body language and non-verbal communication, in television and newspapers including for Expressen at the Swedish Crown Princess Victoria's wedding and for Aftonbladet during the US SuperTuesday 2016.
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Henrik has a BA in Philosophy from Stockholm University and has worked in communications and marketing.
Fexeus has written seven books on practical psychology and influence. His first book, The art of reading minds, was released in 2007 by Forum Bokförlag. In 2010, it received the Pocket Platinum sales award. His second book, When you do what I want, was released in 2008 and received in 2010 the Pocket Gold award.
As of 2019, his books have bee -
Lars Kepler
Lars Kepler is the pseudonym of critically acclaimed husband and wife team Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril, authors of the No. 1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series. With seven installments to date, the series has sold 13 million copies in 40 languages. The Ahndorils were both established writers before they adopted the pen name Lars Kepler, and have each published several acclaimed novels.
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Piergiorgio Pulixi
Piergiorgio Pulixi, scrittore e sceneggiatore, è uno dei più apprezzati autori noir italiani, fa parte del collettivo di scrittura Sabot creato da Massimo Carlotto di cui è allievo. Insieme allo stesso Carlotto e ai Sabot ha pubblicato Perdas de Fogu, (edizioni E/O 2008). È autore della saga poliziesca di Biagio Mazzeo iniziata col noir Una brutta storia (Edizioni E/O 2012), finalista al Premio Camaiore 2013 e chiusa col romanzo finale della quadrilogia, Prima di dirti addio (Edizioni E/O 2016). Nel 2014 per Rizzoli ha pubblicato il romanzo Padre Nostro. Ha vinto numerosi premi letterari e nel 2015 è stato premiato ai Corpi Freddi Awards come miglior autore italiano dell’anno. I suoi romanzi sono in corso di pubblicazione negli Stati Uniti,
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Anders de la Motte
Anders de la Motte, a former police officer, made his debut in 2010 with the award-winning thriller Game and has since then been one of Sweden’s most beloved and popular crime writers. He is the author of several acclaimed and bestselling crime fiction series, among them the suspenseful Skåne Quartet. Published in 2022, The Mountain King is the first bestselling installment in his new Leo Asker series.
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Mathijs Deen
Mathijs Deen (1962) is een Nederlandse schrijver, radiomaker (VPRO-radioprogramma OVT) en voorlezer van audioboeken.
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Voor Over Oude Wegen ontving Deen in 2018 de Halewijnprijs. Het Lichtschip (La Nave Faro) is door de havenautoriteiten van Livorno bekroond vanwege zijn verdienste als verspreider van kennis over de zeevaart. -
Søren Sveistrup
Søren Sveistrup is an internationally acclaimed scriptwriter of the Danish television phenomenon The Killing which won various international awards and sold in more than a hundred countries. More recently, Sveistrup wrote the screenplay for Jo Nesbø's The Snowman.
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Sveistrup obtained a Master in Literature and in History from the University of Copenhagen and studied at the Danish Film School. He has won countless prizes, including an Emmy for Nikolaj and Julie and a BAFTA for The Killing. -
M.J. Arlidge
M.J. Arlidge has worked in television for the last 15 years, specialising in high end drama production. Arlidge has produced a number of prime-time crime serials for ITV In the last five years, and is currently working on a major adaptation of The Last of the Mohicans for the BBC.
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Emelie Schepp
Anna Emelie Schepp, född den 5 september 1979 i Motala är svensk kriminalförfattare.
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1998 vann hon Östgötateaterns dramapristävling, Möten.
Schepp har tidigare arbetat som projektledare i reklambranschen och arbetar i dag som författare, skribent och krönikör. Hon är även en av programledarna för Deckarpodden, en podcast om livet som författare, och har dessutom skrivit två filmmanus.
År 2013 debuterade hon med kriminalromanen Märkta för livet på eget förlag som blev såld i 40 000 exemplar. Schepp har tecknat ett treboksavtal med Wahlström & Widstrand som hösten 2014 gav ut Märkta för livet på nytt. Märkta för livet är den första delen i serien om åklagare Jana Berzelius.
Idag har Märkta för livet sålt i närmare 200 000 ex enbart i Sverige.
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Anya Niewierra
Anya Niewierra is de schrijfster van de thrillers Vrij uitzicht en Het Dossier. Ze woont, werkt, schildert en schrijft in Zuid-Limburg en in de Pyreneeën. Zowel haar jeugdjaren binnen de serene abdijmuren van Gymnasium Rolduc als het deels wonen in Frans Catalonië hebben Niewierra geïnspireerd tot het schrijven van Het bloemenmeisje.
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Carla Kovach
Carla Kovach was born in Birmingham, UK and now resides in Redditch, Worcestershire. Author of supernatural drama 'Flame,' psychological thriller 'To Let,' crime thriller 'Whispers Beneath the Pines, and romantic comedy 'Meet Me at Marmaris Castle.' Carla also writes stage and screen plays, some of which have been produced in the Worcestershire area.
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Stefan Ahnhem
”As a kid, I never dreamt of being a writer. Putting letters in the right order to form words did not come easily to me. In school, while the rest of my class had Swedish lessons, a strange-smelling lady would pull me out of the classroom to play with wooden blocks painted with colourful letters.
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For as long as I can remember, however, I have been a passionate storyteller. Growing up as an only child undoubtedly sparked my creativity, and all the hours spent playing by myself fed my vivid imagination. My grandfather’s rocking chair was a marvellous spacecraft able to transport me to all the planets in the universe. And the world map that my teacher stubbornly refused to pull down revealed precisely where the secret treasure was buried.
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Ingar Johnsrud
Ingar Johnsrud (b. 1974) is a renowned Norwegian journalist. Johnsrud made his literary debut in 2015 with the thriller Those Who Follow, the first installment in a planned trilogy. He has received massive attention for his sharp eye for detail, rich and innovative plotting, and confident prose. Praised by critics as a writer who will keep readers on the edge of their seats, Johnsrud has positioned himself as one of the rising stars on the Scandinavian crime fiction scene. Ingar Johnsrud lives with his wife and three children in Oslo.
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Anne Elvedal
Anne Elvedal er en av landets mest ettertraktede manusforfattere innen TV og film. Hun har skrevet manus til tre Amanda-nominerte spillefilmer (Børning 2, Kutoppen og Elias og jakten på havets gull) og tv-seriene Twin og Wisting har høstet gode kritikker og blitt solgt til flere land. Anne Elvedal debuterer nå som skjønnlitterær forfatter med ungdomstrilogien Dødens spill.
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Miriam Verheyden
Miriam Verheyden is a Canadian non-fiction writer, novelist, x-ray technologist, and mental health advocate.
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Known for her honesty and deep vulnerability, she writes books about love, fear, mental health, aging, and being a woman in the world.
Miriam was born and raised in Germany. During a solo trip at 22 to the wild west of Canada she fell in love with her husband, dropped everything at home and moved to British Columbia to be with him. 20+ years later they are still happily married, living on a ranch in the interior of BC.
She has written 4 books: Let's Pretend This is Normal recounts how travelling from Germany to Canada to heal from a broken heart changed her life: she fell in love with the country and a much older father of 4, dropped -
Agnes Lovise Matre
Agnes Lovise Matre is a Norwegian author. Her first book, a novel about bulimia, was released in 2012.
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She teaches at a junior high school, and likes to sing and play the guitar. She is also an avid soccer fan, with FK-Haugesund being the team of choice.
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David Arrowsmith
Author. My new book Narcoball: Love, Death and Football in Escobar’s Colombia is out now!
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R.N. Morris
R. N. Morris's most recent book is the historical novel, Fortune's Hand.
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He is the author of the St Petersburg Mysteries Series featuring Porfiry Petrovich, the detective from Dostoevsky's masterpiece Crime and Punishment: A Gentle Axe, A Vengeful Longing, A Razor Wrapped in Silk and The Cleansing Flames.
He also wrote the Silas Quinn series, set in London in 1914: Summon Up The Blood, The Mannequin House, The Dark Palace, The Red Hand of Fury, The White Feather Killer and The Music Box Enigma.
He has written a standalone dystopian thriller, Psychotopia and, writing as Roger Morris, the contemporary thriller Taking Comfort. -
Bo Svernström
Lives in Stockholm and works as a full time writer.
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Previously worked as a journalist at the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet for 19 years.
Studied at University of Gothenburg. First physics and biologi, but later on literature, linguistics and philosophy. Studied as a Phd candidate in literature, but dropped out.
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Lidija Dimkovska
Poet and novelist from North Macedonia living in Slovenia. Born in 1971, Lidija writes in Macedonian. She has published seven books of poetry, three novels, one American diary and one collection of short stories which have been awarded and translated into 15 languages (English, German, Polish, Hungarian, Slovak, Czech, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, French, Croatian, Italian, Albanian, Bulgarian and Latvian).
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Lidija has participated at numerous international literary festivals (Princeton Poetry Festival, Stockholm, Rotterdam, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Vilnius, Manchester, Chicago, Zagreb, Vilenica, Medana, Struga, Leipzig, Lido Adriano, Manchester, Kazan, Dresden, Taipei, Cork, Warsaw, Berlin, etc.) and was a writer-in-residence in London, Berlin, -
Liza Marklund
Scandinavia’s undisputed queen of crime fiction, Liza Marklund is the No. 1 international bestselling author of the Annika Bengtzon series.
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Liza Marklund was born in 1962 in the small village of Pålmark, close to the Arctic Circle in Sweden. She is an author, journalist, columnist, and goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. She is also co-owner of Piratförlaget, one of Sweden’s most successful publishing houses. Since her debut in 1995, Liza Marklund has written eleven novels and two nonfiction books. Liza co-wrote the international bestseller The Postcard Killers with James Patterson, making her the second Swedish author ever to reach No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Her crime novels featuring the gutsy reporter Annika Bengtzon have s -
Elissa Epel
Elissa Sarah Epel is an American health psychologist and author. She is the daughter of David Epel.
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Epel is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, director of UCSF’s Aging, Metabolism, and Emotion Center, and associate director of the Center for Health and Community. -
Elisabeth Herrmann
Elisabeth Herrmann ist eine der aufregendsten Stimmen unserer Zeit. Lebendig, abgründig, atmosphärisch – ihr Stil begeistert Krimileser seit der Veröffentlichung von Das Kindermädchen. (In der Verfilmung für das ZDF wird Jan Josef Liefers in der Hauptrolle zu sehen sein.) Mit Zeugin der Toten legt Elisabeth Herrmann nun einen Spannungsroman vor, der eine ganz ungewöhnliche Heldin vorstellt. Die Autorin lebt mit ihrer Tochter in Berlin.
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Nilgün Yerli
Turkish-Dutch actress, author and theatre performer Nilgün Yerli was born in Turkey. She came to the Netherlands at the age of ten and originally lived in Heerenveen but later moved to Amsterdam.
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Teresa Simon
Teresa Simon ist das Pseudonym einer bekannten deutschen Autorin. Sie reist gerne (auch in die Vergangenheit), ist neugierig auf ungewöhnliche Schicksale, hat ein Faible für Katzen, bewundert alles, was grünt und blüht, und lässt sich immer wieder von stimmungsvollen historischen Schauplätzen inspirieren.
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Ingar Johnsrud
Ingar Johnsrud (b. 1974) is a renowned Norwegian journalist. Johnsrud made his literary debut in 2015 with the thriller Those Who Follow, the first installment in a planned trilogy. He has received massive attention for his sharp eye for detail, rich and innovative plotting, and confident prose. Praised by critics as a writer who will keep readers on the edge of their seats, Johnsrud has positioned himself as one of the rising stars on the Scandinavian crime fiction scene. Ingar Johnsrud lives with his wife and three children in Oslo.
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Angela Dorsey
ANGELA DORSEY currently lives on Vancouver Island and is thoroughly enjoying the ocean breezes, awesome hiking, and lack of snow! In the past, she has lived in a number of small towns throughout B.C., and loved them all.
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She loves hiking, traveling, and animals, and has a tendency to name her pets after things that remind her of her coastal home, such as Misty, Raven, and Cedar.
Angela writes novels, screenplays, and non-fiction, and has a number of literary publications (short stories, poems, and postcard stories) and articles published as well. -
Auke Kok
Auke Kok liep in 1983 als doctorandus maatschappijgeschiedenis (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) stage bij het opinieweekblad Haagse Post.Hij werd daar schrijvend redacteur, vervolgens lid van de eerste redactie van het zakenblad Quote en keerde in 1989 terug naar de Haagse Post om daar een sectie economie op te zetten.
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Een jaar later werd Kok chef economie bij het fusieblad HP/De Tijd en in 1995 adjunct-hoofdredacteur en hoofdredacteur a.i. In 2000 stapte hij als redactiechef over naar NOS Radio 1 Journaal. In 2004 vestigde Kok zich als zelfstandig journalist en boekenschrijver.Hij is getrouwd met Dido Michielsen en vader van twee dochters. -
Peter Mohlin
Peter Mohlin and Peter Nyström grew up together in a Swedish small town and created their first crime novel as 10-year-olds. After working professionally with editorial text and directing/scriptwriting for stage and film for many years, they decided to pick up where they left off in middle school and write a crime novel. They both love crime in all forms and realized their strengths were a fruitful combination: the journalist’s sharp pen mixed with the scriptwriter’s sense of dramaturgy and dialogue. The Bucket List, their debut novel, has been sold in 15 countries.
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Allan Hall
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Reporter for UK Daily Mail and tabloids on crime, paranormal, history, and the unexplained.
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Freelancer: Daily Mail, Daily Star, Daily Express, Observer, Daily Mirror, Daily Record, The Scotsman, The Age, Melbourne, Sunday Times, The Times, Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, Sunday People, Sunday Mirror, Sunday Express, Evening Standard, London, Daily Sport.
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When based in Berlin worked for: Daily Mail - London, the Age - Melbourne,
Australia, the Scotsman - Edinburgh, New York Post NY. Formerly bureau chief for Britain’s biggest-selling papers – the Sun, then the Daily Mirror – NY.
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Marnie Riches
Marnie Riches grew up on a rough estate in Manchester. She learned her way out of the ghetto, all the way to Cambridge University, where she gained a Masters degree in German & Dutch. She has been a punk, a trainee rock star, a pretend artist, a property developer and professional fundraiser. Previously a children's author, now, she writes gritty, fast-paced crime fiction.
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Marnie Riches is the author of the award-winning, best-selling George McKenzie series, starting with "The Girl Who Wouldn't Die", published in the UK by Avon/HarperCollins and special editions by The Word Factor-e in the US. She is also the author of best-selling, critically acclaimed Manchester gangland thrillers, "Born Bad" and "The Cover-Up" as featured in CBS documenta -
Rachel van Charante
Rachel van Charante (1985) groeide op in Twente en woont en werkt in Lochem. Ze was jarenlang werkzaam in de vastgoedsector, maar besloot haar droom te verwezenlijken en fulltime te gaan schrijven. Ze liet zich inspireren door een prachtige villa in haar woonplaats voor haar debuut Het schuilhuis.
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Emil André Erstad
Norwegian non-fiction author mostly interested in Norwegian and international politics, the Middle East, Turkey and the backlash at democracy in Europe.
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Marrisse Whittaker
Marrisse Whittaker has been creating characters for all of her working life, first as a TV and Film Make-Up Artist, where she might have been called upon to construct a corpse, age an actor by a hundred years, or make a real-life drug-raddled rock star look desirable.
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Next as a TV Scriptwriter, creating stories for popular series such as CBBC’S Byker Grove, BBC’s Doctors and Channel 4 Hollyoaks.
But plenty of drama takes place in real-life too and when Marrisse joined forces with her husband, former TV Journalist Bob Whittaker, to establish Orion TV, they produced a fascinating range of factual programmes for major broadcasters.
Now creating a scene has taken on a new meaning for Marrisse since 2020, when she launched a new career as a nove -
Peter Balko
Peter Balko (1988) je scenárista, dramaturg, prozaik a básnik. Debutoval románom Vtedy v Lošonci (2015). Je laureátom mnohých literárnych súťaží, publikoval v Pravde, Romboide, českom Labyrinte či maďarskom Gömörországu. Je víťazom prestížnej literárnej súťaže Poviedka 2012 a finalistom súťaže Anasoftlitera 2015. Jeho prózy sú knižne uverejnené v antológii Poviedka 2012 a Pulz V4. Vyštudoval scenáristiku a dramaturgiu na filmovej fakulte VŠMU.
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Eystein Hanssen
Eystein Hanssen is the author of nine crime and thrillers novels. His books are available in Norway, Sweden and Germany.
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The Elli novels are among the most streamed audiobooks in Norway, with all seven titles reaching no. 1. His first two novels were shortlisted for the Norwegian Bookseller’s Award.
As of May 2021 Hanssen has written De ingen savner (2010, German title Totenmaler), Giftstrøm (2011, German title Blutgeld), Triangel (2012), Åtseldyr (2013, German title Knochen), Brennemerket (2015), Jaget (2017), En kort evighet (2019) and also the thrillers Svart landskap (2018) and Kokong (2021) .
A former documentary filmmaker, Eystein Hanssen writes in a visual style. Critics have regularly pointed out the film potential in -
Johan Høst
Johan Høst (b.1971) debuted with the action thriller The Nation’s Gambit in 2022. The book good rave reviews in the press and film rights were sold before publication. The book is the first in a planned trilogy. He works as creative director and copywriter for an advertising agency he founded. He is also a former curling player – and four time Norwegian champion in the sport. Høst was born in Denmark, but moved to Norway as a child. He now lives in Lillehammer with his wife and three adult kids.
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Karmela Špoljarić
Karmela Špoljarić rođena je 1967. u Zagrebu. Maturirala u Školi za primijenjenu umjetnost i dizajn, a diplomirala kroatistiku i južnoslavenske filologije na Filozofskom fakultetu, na kojem je i magistrirala na poslijediplomskom znanstvenom studiju književnosti. Članica je Matice hrvatske i Mense. Pisati je započela 2010. Pripovijetke objavljuje na Trećem programu HR-a. Za tinejđersku dramu Nula kuna po minuti dobila je nagradu Ministarstva kulture Marin Držić.
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Tony Schumacher
Tony Schumacher has written for The Guardian Newspaper, the Huffington Post, and many magazines.
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He currently is working on the third book in the John Rossett series of thrillers, which are published worldwide by HarperCollins.
"Schumacher's assured and atmospheric writing make this a memorable novel, reminiscent of writers from John Buchan to Ken Follett, and of directors from Alfred Hitchcock to Carol Reed..." Wall Street Journal Sept 14
"...a thrilling novel that poses some very challenging questions to the reader, and tells a fascinating story..." Mark Rubinstein Huffington Post
"By the last quarter of the book, I was in full unputdownable mode, and it wasn’t a disappointment..." My Shelf Confessions
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Øistein Borge
Øistein Borge er en norsk krim- og ungdomsbokforfatter.
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Borge arbeidet i en årrekke i film- og reklamebransjen, som regissør, tekstforfatter og kreativ leder. Han har mottatt en lang rekke priser for sine arbeider både i Norge og utlandet, blant disse to gulløver fra reklamefilmfestivalen i Cannes.
Borge har utgitt en serie på tre romaner om ungdomshelten Nino Glass. I 2016 krimdebuterte Borge med sin første bok om Bogart Bull – «Den syvende demonen».
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Espen Skjerven
Espen Skjerven (f. 1974) er født og oppvokst i Oslo. Han bor i Sandnes med ektefelle og to barn.
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Skjerven jobber som tingrettsdommer i Sør-Rogaland tingrett. Han er også medlem av dommernes mediegruppe og Konkurranseklagenemnda. Han har bakgrunn som politiadvokat i Økokrim og Kripos og som forretningsadvokat/prosedyreadvokat.
På fritiden er han forfatter. Han har skrevet en krimserie om politimannen Tom Grayston: Slakt (2019), Blod er tykkere enn vann (2021), Kleptokratiet (2022) og Svikere (2024).
Ingenting å skjule (2025) er Skjervens første skjønnlitterære roman. Skjerven opplevde selv å miste håret som barn, og selv om historien er fiktiv, er den inspirert av egne erfaringer.
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Nathalie Windhorst
Nathalie Windhorst (1972) koopt documentaires aan voor de publieke omroep. Schrijven gebeurt daarom nogal eens op luchthavens of in de trein, als ze onderweg is naar een filmfestival. Gelukkig is ze gek op reizen, ook in haar vrije tijd maakt ze graag city trips. Nathalie is regelmatig te vinden bij popconcerten en ze verslindt romance. Samen met haar vriend en hun twee tienerzoons woont ze in Utrecht. Haar geliefde woonplaats vormt het decor voor haar feelgoodverhalen. De Utrechtse School is haar debuutserie.
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Andreas Franz
Andreas Franz (1954 - 2011) was a German author, best remembered for his numerous crime novels.
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The son of two musicians from East Germany, he later moved west with his family, and worked in numerous jobs. In 1997, he gave up his last job as a translator to become a full-time writer, quickly becoming popular through his Julia Durant series of crime/mystery novels. Franz lived near Frankfurt with his wife and four children until his death from heart failure at the age of 57. -
Marisa Kuijk
Marisa Kuijk is geboren op 28 april 1966 in Rotterdam. In 1995 is ze afgestudeerd in de Algemene Letteren aan de Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, waarna ze een postdoctorale cursus Copywriting gevolgd heeft aan de School voor Journalistiek te Utrecht. Daarna is ze aan de slag gegaan als copywriter bij verschillende reclamebureaus, tot in 2005 haar dochter Lisa geboren werd. Dit inspireerde haar tot het schrijven van een kinderboek. Dat beviel zo goed, dat ze zich sindsdien volledig is gaan toeleggen op het schrijven van fictie. Naast het schrijven, schildert (in olieverf) en werkt Marisa parttime als sensory expert bij Nutrica.
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