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Pepetela
His full name is Artur Carlos Mauricio Pestana dos Santos, an Angolan author, born in the coastal town of Benguela. He took the name Pepetela, which means ‘eyelash’, during the war of liberation 1961-74 and he has used it since then as a pseudonym. His father had Portuguese parents but he too was born in Angola; his mother’s family had a Portuguese background but had lived in Angola for five gener...
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Småge, Kim
Kim Småge is a pseudonym used by the Norwegian author Anne Karin Thorshus who was born in Trondheim. After having completed her education in 1964, she worked as a secretary in Trondheim. She studied economics at the Trondheim Økonomiske Gymnas and then read Norwegian, English and Geography at the University of Trondheim, graduating in 1977. In 1980, she became Norway’s first female diving ins...