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Van Greenaway, Peter

Peter Van Greenaway was a British author of unconventional crime stories that included elements of horror and science fiction. He was extremely shy, and little is known about his life. Allegedly, he only gave two interviews in the last 25 years of his life, both with Swedish crime fiction aficionados Jan Broberg and Ulf Örnklo.
No birth or death certificates have ever been found, so there is ...

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Portrait of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Photo: Peter Peitsch (1999) / www.peitschphoto.com

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Vázquez Montalbán, Manuel

Spanish author, journalist, essayist and poet. Vázquez Montalbán was born in Barcelona the same year as General Franco came out of the civil war victorious. He belonged to that generation of Spaniards who did not get to know what it means to live in a democracy until their middle ages. Until his death in 1975, Franco ran a hard dictatorship with censorship and with capital punishment or i...

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