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Skagen, Fredrik
Fredrik Skagen is one of Norway’s most popular award-winning crime writers. He was born in Trondheim where he lived all his life. As a young man he wanted to be a jazz pianist, but he also enjoyed writing ever since his father gave him a typewriter when he was ten. Skagen trained as a librarian at Statens bibliotekskole in Oslo 1960–61, and in 1961–69 he worked as librarian in Trondheim and at the...
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Deaver, Jeffery
Jeffery Deaver is an American author of mystery novels born in Glen Ellyn near Chicago, Illinois. Having been born to a family with cultural interests, he enjoyed music and books as a child. When he was eleven years old, he began to write a novel that was left unfinished, he edited the high school literary magazine and contributed to the school magazine. He later read journalism at the...
