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Portrait image of Boris Akunin Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP Photo/TT (2012)

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Akunin, Boris

Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was born in Zestaponi, Georgian USSR. His father was an officer and his mother a teacher. When Chkhartishvili was two years old, the family left Georgia and moved to Moscow where he grew up and attended school, majoring in English. Having become fascinated by Japanese culture...

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Portrait of Elizabeth Haynes Photo: Eyevine/TT (2012)

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Haynes, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Haynes is a British author of crime fiction. She grew up in Seaford, Sussex and read English, German and Art History at the University of Leicester. She then worked in a number of different professions including car sales and the medical industry, and as an au pair in Berlin in 1989 before she was employed as a police intelligence analyst for Kent Police. She attended a creative...

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