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McDermid, Val
Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer born in Kirkcaldy, Fife. She attended Kirkcaldy High School where she was among a group of pupils that participated in a controversial project for especially talented students based on IQ tests.
When she was seventeen, she was the first student from a Scottish state school to be admitted to St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she graduated with a Bachelor o...
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Bjerke, André
André Bjerke was a prominent figure on the Norwegian culture scene in the 1990s. He was an authority on Norwegian post-war literature and language, a translator, editor, critic and renowned chess player, but most of all he was the author of non-fiction, children’s books, crime fiction, essays and poetry, for which he is best known. His erudition earned him the epithet "Renaissance man".
Bjerke w...
