Gaboriau, Émile
1832 - 1873

While Edgar Allan Poe, the American author of short stories, is generally considered to be the father of modern crime...

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Westö, Kjell
1961 -

Kjell Westö is a Finland-Swedish author and journalist who writes in Swedish. He grew up in an upper middleclass family ...

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Persson, Leif G.W.
1945 -

Leif Gustav Willy Persson is a Swedish author and criminologist who previously worked for the Swedish Police and the...

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Blasim, Hassan
1973 -

The author and filmmaker Hassan Blasim was born in Baghdad, Iraq, as one of nine siblings in a Shiite family. He was...

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