Thank you for your replies. Father and son, husband/wife or brothers writing duos are not that rare. Anyway, for those who never heard of A&B Strugatsky, they are the authors of Stalker/Roadside Picnic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady...ris_Strugatsky
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
You can correct the default author_sort value by changing "Arkadi & Strugatki, Boris" to "Strugatki, Boris and Arkadi" in Manage Authors.
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Thank you but having to manually do this I feel somehow it defeats the reason Calibre was created in the first place.
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Originally Posted by Bookstooge
Why not fill out an author name, completely, for both of them?
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That works, indeed, but that would be really unusual - writing duos sharing a surname are not usually written with both surnames.
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Originally Posted by Adoby
Arkadi and Boris Strugatski (I don't know if calibre treats "and" as "&" in the authors field.)
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Originally Posted by itimpi
If ‘and’ was used instead of ‘&’ then the expected result is obtained.
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"And" does not work because Calibre
automatically corrects it to "&". Also, using "and" would mean the author field is no longer language-agnostic - in a multilingual collection one would have different author entries for different languages (e.g. "und", "et") ...
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
If the authors ALWAYS write together, you could use "Arkadi and Boris Strugatki" which would sort as "Strugatki, Arkadi and Boris".
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They always write together but "and", as I said, gets changed automatically to "&" and the results is Arkadi & Strugatki, Boris.
I see this rename also mentioned here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=182678
I'd hate using full names so I guess I will have to disregard the author sort field completely.