Jamal Mahjoub was born in London in 1960 and spent his formative years in Khartoum, Sudan.

Since then he has settled in a number of cities, including London, Aarhus, Barcelona and, more recently, Amsterdam. The author of seven novels, his work, fiction and non-fiction, has been critically acclaimed and widely translated. He has published six crime novels featuring private detective Makana, using the pen name Parker Bilal.

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