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Lang, Maria
Maria Lang is the pen name of the teacher and head mistress Dagmar (Maria) Lange, one of Sweden’s most popular, but also most criticised, crime novelists. Lange and Stieg Trenter dominated the Swedish crime fiction scene in the 1950s and ‘60s. In the media they were referred to as King Stieg and Queen Maria. Dagmar Lange was born in Västerås. The family moved to Lindesberg in 1915 where her fathe...
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Mishani, Dror
Dror Mishani is an Israeli crime writer, born and raised in the Tel Aviv suburb of Holon. He is also a translator, literary scholar and a lecturer at Tel Aviv University, and he has written and produced TV series as well. He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife Marta, who is originally from Poland, and their two children. Marta Mishani holds a doctorate in Hebrew literature and lectured in Warsaw...
