Anniversaries, 29 March
Jo Nesbø
The Norwegian, Jo Nesbø, is one of Norway’s most appreciated and successful crime writers. He was born in Oslo as Jon Nesbø, but when he was 16 he formally changed his first name to Jo, which was what his parents had originally thought of calling him. Already when he was very small, the family moved to Molde where he grew up and attended school. His mother was a librarian and read a lot, his father was a company director who often liked to tell stories that he had made up himself for his three s...
Anniversaries, 29 March
Marcel Aymé
French author born in the town of Joigny, Burgundy, as the youngest of six children. His father was a cavalry farrier. His mother died when he was very young, so he was raised by his maternal grandparents who owned a brickworks at Villers-Robert, a small village in the Jura. After his grandparents died, he was looked after by an aunt who lived in the nearby town of Dole. These are the places in which many of Aymé’s novels are set. The family was radical and anti-clerical, a fact that plagued th...
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Ani, Friedrich
Friedrich Ani was born in Kochel am See, Bavaria. His father was Syrian and his mother was born in Silesia. After graduating from university, Ani moved to Munich where he still lives. He began to write plays for the radio and stage in upper secondary school, some of which he was able to sell. After serving his military service as a civilian at a home for troubled youth, he worked as a crime...