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Larsson, Stieg
Stieg Larsson was a Swedish author and journalist who, despite only publishing three novels, is one of Sweden’s best-selling authors of fiction ever, both at home and abroad. He was born as Karl Stig-Erland Larsson in Skelleftehamn, but since his parents were only nineteen years old and had no money at the time, he was brought up by his grandparents, initially in the small village of Utviken and l...
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Flynn, Gillian
Already as a child, the American author and journalist Gillian Flynn was fascinated by horror and crime. She read books with violence, unexplained events and blood in the plot, and watched X rated films. When she was seven years old, she had already seen such films as Psycho, Alien and Bonnie and Clyde – with her father’s blessing. He was a professor and teacher of Film Studies, while her mot...