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Grue, Anna

Danish writer Anna Grue is an editor and journalist whose crime novels have been very favorably received in her native country and abroad – although she is strangely unknown in Sweden. Grue was born in Nykøbing in 1957. Both her parents were physicians. The family moved on to Randers in 1960, then to Aalborg in 1969. At home, her parents openly discussed diseases and deaths in a professional wa...

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Banville, John

John Banville is one of Ireland’s best known and most prize-winning authors. He was awarded the Booker Prize in 2005, the Kafka Prize in 2007 and the prestigious Austrian state prize for European literature in 2014. He was elected to the British Royal Society of Literature in 2007 and the Italian Ordine della Stella d’Italia in 2017. As an author, he is regarded as an heir to Marcel Proust and Vla...

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