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Pepetela
His full name is Artur Carlos Mauricio Pestana dos Santos, an Angolan author, born in the coastal town of Benguela. He took the name Pepetela, which means ‘eyelash’, during the war of liberation 1961-74 and he has used it since then as a pseudonym. His father had Portuguese parents but he too was born in Angola; his mother’s family had a Portuguese background but had lived in Angola for five gener...
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Läckberg, Camilla
Detective-story writer Camilla Läckberg has mainly killed people off in the village of Fjällbacka, on the west coast of Sweden, where she was born and grew up and feels at home. Her father was a policeman for a short period before he had to retire for health reasons, and from him she inherited her interest in reading and writing as well as a large collection of detective stories. She likes to d...
