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Portrait of Derek Raymond Photo: Sophie Bassouls/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images (1990)

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Raymond, Derek

English author, who during a Bohemian and wandering life occupied himself with a number of different jobs and activities, a by-no-means small part of them criminal. This is also reflected in his books: he is known as a pioneer in the crime-literature sub-genre called ‘British noir’, and which is usually set in environments and among people at the bottom of society. The books have been criticised f...

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Arbetarlitteratur

By: Tony Samuelsson

”Om Martin Koch (1882-1940) och Gustav Hedenvind-Eriksson (1880-1967) en gång kallades arbetartraditionens grindstolpar, eftersom de var tidigt ute med att skriva om arbetarklassens liv, så har Moa Martinson (1890-1964) och Ivar Lo-Johansson (1901-1990) anlagt själva uppfarten till det hus som vi kan kalla arbetarlitteraturen. --- ”

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