Photo: Elisabeth Grate
Sample of authors
Magnan, Pierre
The French author Pierre Magnan grew up in Manosque at the centre of the department Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, an isolated, deprived rural part of Provence where old customs still prevail. He left school at the age of twelve and became a printer’s apprentice. It was around this time that he met the famous pacifist Jean Giono, who became his mentor and who introduced him to the world of l...
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Haynes, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Haynes is a British author of crime fiction. She grew up in Seaford, Sussex and read English, German and Art History at the University of Leicester. She then worked in a number of different professions including car sales and the medical industry, and as an au pair in Berlin in 1989 before she was employed as a police intelligence analyst for Kent Police. She attended a creative...