We asked our authors from around the world to share their thoughts on why they write, why they read, and the books that have influenced them.
Here’s what they had to say.
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Ulf Andersen
The first writer that I really fell in love with was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in particular his Sherlock Holmes stories, and the first story that I ever wrote was a Sherlock Holmes story. It was a kind of pastiche. I was inspired by the then-new example of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer. I guess I was ten or eleven years old, when I decided I would write my own Sherlock Holmes adventure.
