From 1f7a80cdd30b69c498920c15ce31d3e7a719447c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 06:06:28 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure author returned by fb2 metadata plugin is unicode

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/fb2.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/fb2.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/fb2.py
index a2c56d7167..04e11d5e1f 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/fb2.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/fb2.py
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ def _parse_author(elm_author, ctx):
         if nname:
             author = nname
 
-    return author
+    return str(author)
 
 
 def _parse_book_title(root, ctx):