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Roslund, Anders
Nils Anders Micael Roslund grew up in the county of Scania, Sweden. He lived from time to time at the home of his grandfather where life was quieter than at his own house. Roslund eventually moved to Stockholm with the aim of becoming an author; he still has several unpublished novels lying around. A text by Roslund was included in an anthology entitled Grupp 90 in the early nineties, before he...
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Akunin, Boris
Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was born in Zestaponi, Georgian USSR. His father was an officer and his mother a teacher. When Chkhartishvili was two years old, the family left Georgia and moved to Moscow where he grew up and attended school, majoring in English. Having become fascinated by Japanese culture...