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Portrait image of Frode Grytten Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT (2009)

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Grytten, Frode

Frode Grytten is a Norwegian author and journalist born and raised in Odda, a small industrial community in southwest Norway. His mother was a hairdresser and his father a furniture salesman. He now lives with his wife and children in Bergen where he moved as a student. He began to write at an early age and has, among other things, worked for the Bergen’s Tidende newspaper and the Magasinet I...

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Portrait image of Deon Meyer Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2022)

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Meyer, Deon

Deon Meyer is something of a rarity in that he is a South African crime writer who has had his crime novels, written in Afrikaans, translated for the international market. He was born in Paarl in the Cape Province and grew up in Klerksdorp, in north-western South Africa where his father worked in a gold mine. Deon Meyer matriculated in 1976 at Schoonspruit High School in Klerksdorp. He gained a...

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