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Corris, Peter

Peter Robert Corris was an Australian author, historian, journalist and pioneering author of crime fiction in Australia. Corris was born in Stawell, Victoria. The family moved to Melbourne when he was five years old. He attended Melbourne High School, graduating in 1959, and went on to study at the University of Melbourne. In 1964 he began to read history at Monash University, Melbourne, where...

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Portrait image of André Bjerke Photo: Klaus Forbregd / NTNU (1959)
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Bjerke, André

André Bjerke was a prominent figure on the Norwegian culture scene in the 1990s. He was an authority on Norwegian post-war literature and language, a translator, editor, critic and renowned chess player, but most of all he was the author of non-fiction, children’s books, crime fiction, essays and poetry, for which he is best known. His erudition earned him the epithet "Renaissance man".
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