Doing the tour of other fiction books within arm's reach....

My name is Hermann Soergel. The curious reader may have chanced to leaf through my Shakespeare Chronology, which I once considered essential to a proper understanding of the text; it was translated into several languages, including Spanish.

Jorge Luis Borges, "Shakespeare's Memory" (translated by Andrew Hurley)

When her father had been executed, her aunts and uncles on both sides of the family had declined to speak out against his killers, and Nasim had been so angry that she'd cut herself off from everyone, even before she and her mother had fled.

Greg Egan, Zendegi (this, like the Jennifer Morgue example, was on the page to which I opened at random)

Now the mayor's cousin has been arrested for murder.

John Chernega, "Almond", in Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die