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Damhaug, Torkil
Torkil Damhaug is a Norwegian author and physician born in Lillehammer. His father was an officer of the Norwegian Army and his mother a school principal. His sister, Bente Damhaug (1952–2014), was a well-known actress, author and journalist. In 1964, the family moved to Lørenskog near Oslo where Torkil Damhaug attended school. He read literature and anthropology at the University of Bergen and la...
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Jansson, Anna
The Swedish crime writer Anna Jansson was born in Visby on the island of Gotland. In 1979, she moved to Örebro where she attended nursing college. She has recounted that she couldn’t stand the sight of blood, so for the next twenty-five years she worked in the hospital’s lung department. She still lives in Örebro, although she spent a great deal of time writing in nearby Vintrosa and she has a sec...
