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Johnsrud, Ingar
The Norwegian author and journalist Ingar Johnsrud was born in Oslo and grew up in the village of Holmestrand just outside the Norwegian capital. After matriculation he studied Cinema and took a degree in Journalism. His first jobs as a journalist were with the Jarlsberg Avis and NRK, the Norwegian radio. In 2001 he started working at Verdens Gang (VG) where he mainly wrote about politics and...
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Gaboriau, Émile
While Edgar Allan Poe, the American author of short stories, is generally considered to be the father of modern crime fiction, Émile Gaboriau has been cited as the father of the crime novel. He was the first to use at least four defining elements of the genre: 1) He wrote briefly and succinctly compared to his contemporaries and his novels are driven by the crime plot. 2) His protagonists are ...
