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Jónasson, Ragnar
The Icelandic author Ragnar Jónasson was born in Reykjavik. He grew up in a writing family where several family members are authors. As a teenager, he started to read crime fiction and translated a long row of Agatha Christie’s books into Icelandic, one a year for 14 years starting when he was seventeen. Ragnar Jónasson studied Law and while studying he worked as a journalist for radio and TV on I...
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Lehane, Dennis
The American crime writer Dennis Lehane grew up in an Irish family as the youngest of five children in Dorchester on the outskirts of Boston. After graduating from Boston College High School he alternated odd jobs with intermittent study while he was thinking about what he wanted to do.
In 1986, he moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, to attend Eckerd College, and he graduated with a degree in...
