Jan costin wagner biography of albert

  • Every day brings a terror attack and a military intervention.
  • Ben Neven, senior criminal investigator, happily married, family man, highly respected by colleagues, is one of the good guys.
  • It's Christmas Eve, a time when everyone is supposed to be enjoying themselves with family and friends, but Albert's mother has died and he.

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    I couldn’t resist taking a closer look at this book which has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 when I realised that it made a neat passform with my recent historical crime reads, both factual and fictionalised.

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    The Outsider / The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)Original French title: L’Etranger.

    Preamble: I know that L’Etranger by Albert Camus has been translated into The Outsider or The Stranger. I’ll stick to the French title to keep everyone happy even if I think that The Outsider is a better title.

    Like a lot of French teenagers, I studied L’Etranger in school. I was fourteen when I read it and I remember that I enjoyed it despite studying it in class. Now it’s my daughter’s turn to read it and I decided to read it along with her.

    For those who haven’t read this stunning novella by Albert Camus, it opens with some of the most famous sentences of French literature.

    Aujourd’hui maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know.

    Translation by Matthew Ward.

    Meursault is a young bachelor living in Algiers during the French colonization. His mother was in an old home when she died, and the first chapters descr

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    List of German-language authors

    See also: List of German-language philosophers, List of German-language playwrights, and List of German-language poets

    This list contains the names of persons (of any ethnicity or nationality) who wrote fiction, essays, or plays in the German language. It includes both living and deceased writers.

    Most of the medieval authors are alphabetized by their first name, not by their sobriquet.

    This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

    Abbreviations: children's (ch), drama (d), fiction (f), non-fiction (nf), poetry (p)

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    • Thomas Abbt (1738–1766, nf)
    • Johann Christoph Adelung (1732–1806, nf)
    • Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967, nf)
    • Rudolf Agricola (1494–1566, nf)
    • Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016, p/f/d)
    • Hermann Allmers (1821–1902, p)
    • Peter Altenberg (1859–1919, nf/p)
    • Jean Améry (1912–1978, nf)
    • Alfred Andersch (1914–1980, nf/f)
    • Lou Andre