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Portrait image of Minette Walters Foto: Bengt Gustafsson / Forflex

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Walters, Minette

Minette Walters is an author of crime fiction born Minette Jebb in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. Her father was an army officer and her mother an artist. The family moved frequently due to the father’s profession, and Walters was mostly brought up on military bases. After her father had died of kidney failure in 1960, Walters attended the Abbey School at Reading, Berkshire, for a yea...

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Portrait image of Kjell Ola Dahl Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2016)

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Dahl, Kjell Ola

Kjell Ola Dahl is a Norwegian author and farmer born in Gjøvik, Oppland, north of Oslo. He grew up in Kristiansand, Oslo and Bærum, where he attended upper-secondary school until 1977. He went on to the University of Oslo, and spent some years travelling, studying and working as, among other things, a janitor, market dealer, taxi driver, teacher, dustman and waiter. During this period he g...

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