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Sample of authors
Le Carré, John
Born David John Moore Cornwell in Poole, county of Dorset, England, John le Carré grew up in a troubled home. While his father served a prison sentence for fraud, his mother left the family when David was five years old. He did not see her again until he was 21. He grew up at boarding schools and in his father’s home, before he got the opportunity to enter higher education at age 16. He studied la...
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Sample of authors
Ceder, Camilla
Camilla Ceder grew up in Olofstorp near Gothenburg. She studied social work and psychotherapy and now lives in Gothenburg where she works as a social worker and welfare officer.
Ceder wrote her first novel, Frozen Moment (2009, Fruset ögonblick), during periods when her youngest daughter was sleeping. It is set in the sparsely populated area of her native west Sweden among car mechanics, mink ...