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Alan Furst
Novelist · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1941 · age 85
Alan Furst is an American author of historical spy novels. Furst has been called "an heir to the tradition of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene," whom he cites along with Joseph Roth and Arthur Koestler as important influences.
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2011Helmerich AwardAward2001Hammett PrizeAward1985German Crime Fiction AwardAward1941Born20 February 1941
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Most of his novels since 1988 have been set just prior to or during the Second World War and he is noted for his successful evocations of Eastern European peoples and places during the period from 1933 to 1944.
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Born 1941 · age 85
