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Portrait image of Mari Jungstedt Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex

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Jungstedt, Mari

Mari Jungstedt is a Swedish journalist, broadcaster and author born in Stockholm. Her parents were very young when they started a family, and Mari is the youngest of her siblings. The family moved from a small flat in the southern suburb of Bandhagen to a terraced house in Upplands-Bro north of Stockholm. Her father was a computer engineer and her mother a housewife. That was the way things were...

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Portrait of Derek Raymond Photo: Sophie Bassouls/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images (1990)

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Raymond, Derek

English author, who during a Bohemian and wandering life occupied himself with a number of different jobs and activities, a by-no-means small part of them criminal. This is also reflected in his books: he is known as a pioneer in the crime-literature sub-genre called ‘British noir’, and which is usually set in environments and among people at the bottom of society. The books have been criticised f...

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