Jeshka
Jeshka asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

I know you visited and enjoyed Croatia, and you must know that you have a serious number of loyal fans from there (myself, my mother, and my grandmother included), and name Oliver Jole is a combination of two Croatian folk singers names, Oliver Dragojevic, and "popularni Jole"... They are pretty awful if you ask me, but I can't help thinking that maybe you have a funny story about that?

Lois McMaster Bujold
Nope; I had never heard of them before you told us just now.

Jole came out of my head when I first invented the character, back in about 1989. He acquired his first name four or five years ago, when I began to develop the ideas for his book, which I created in a common way by generating a list of possible names and staring at it till his name presented itself from the pack.

He came really close to being Perry, a nickname for Perrin; dodged that bullet... Oliver suits him much better.

Ta, L.

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