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Dexter, Colin
The British crime writer Colin Dexter grew up in Stamford, Lincolnshire. After completing his military service in 1950, he read classics at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1953 and receiving an honorary masters degree in 1958. Dexter was a grammar school teacher until 1966, when he started to experience problems with his hearing. He then worked for the University of Oxford Examination...
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Truc, Olivier
The French author Olivier Truc is a journalist and war correspondent. Truc has been working for Le Monde in Scandinavia and the Baltic states since 1994. He lives in Stockholm with his Swedish wife.
During a visit to his wife’s native Västerbotten in the north of Sweden he became interested in the Sami people and began to research their history. After a few non-fiction books and television do...