Anders de la Motte
Anders de la Motte, a former police officer, made his debut in 2010 with the award-winning thriller Game and has since then been one of Sweden’s most beloved and popular crime writers. He is the author of several acclaimed and bestselling crime fiction series, among them the suspenseful Skåne Quartet. Published in 2022, The Mountain King is the first bestselling installment in his new Leo Asker series.
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He is the recipient of the Abraham Polonsky Screenwriting Award for his screenplay Everything Divided as well as a participant in the Sundance Institute's filmmakers' lab for his current project, Fingernails and Smooth Skin. Chbosky lives in New York.
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Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Southern California's Filmic Writing Program. His first film, The Four Corners of Nowhere, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win Best Narrative Feature honors at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
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He is the recipient of the Abraham Polonsky Screenwriting Award for his screenplay Everything Divided as well as a participant in the Sundance Institute's filmmakers' lab for his current project, Fingernails and Smooth Skin. Chbosky lives in New York.
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Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Southern California's Filmic Writing Program. His first film, The Four Corners of Nowhere, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win Best Narrative Feature honors at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
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He is the recipient of the Abraham Polonsky Screenwriting Award for his screenplay Everything Divided as well as a participant in the Sundance Institute's filmmakers' lab for his current project, Fingernails and Smooth Skin. Chbosky lives in New York.
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Ruth Kvarnström-Jones
Ruth Kvarnström-Jones (född 1962) är född och uppvuxen i Storbritannien, men bor i Stockholm sedan 30 år tillbaka. Lika länge har hon arbetat som copywriter, med allt ifrån tryckt media till webbsidor och slogans i butiksfönster.
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Vissa blir franko- eller anglofiler i tonåren. Andra, som Ruth Kvarnström-Jones, snöar in på Sverige.
– Scoutföreningen i byn hade ett utbyte med Karlstadsscouterna och jag drömde om att lära mig svenska. Därför läste jag Scandinavian Studies i London och fick bo i Sverige ett halvt år redan första läsåret. Vilken sommar! Jag la alla pengar på svenska skivor, tidningar och glass.
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Paul Castle
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Søren Sveistrup
Søren Sveistrup is an internationally acclaimed scriptwriter of the Danish television phenomenon The Killing which won various international awards and sold in more than a hundred countries. More recently, Sveistrup wrote the screenplay for Jo Nesbø's The Snowman.
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Jonas Jonasson
After a long career as a journalist, media consultant and television producer, Jonas Jonasson decided to start a new life. He wrote a manuscript, he sold all his possessions in Sweden and moved to a small town by Lake Lugano in Switzerland, only a few meters from the Italian border.
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James Thompson
James Thompson was an American-Finnish crime writer based in Helsinki. He had a master's degree in English philology from The University of Helsinki, where he also studied Finnish, in which he was fluent. He studied six languages. He published four crime novels with the Finnish inspector Kari Vaara as the protagonist.
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Lena Lindgren
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Henrik Fexeus
Henrik Fexeus is a Swedish mentalist, author and TV-host. Since 2005 he is a frequent guest, as expert on body language and non-verbal communication, in television and newspapers including for Expressen at the Swedish Crown Princess Victoria's wedding and for Aftonbladet during the US SuperTuesday 2016.
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Henrik has a BA in Philosophy from Stockholm University and has worked in communications and marketing.
Fexeus has written seven books on practical psychology and influence. His first book, The art of reading minds, was released in 2007 by Forum Bokförlag. In 2010, it received the Pocket Platinum sales award. His second book, When you do what I want, was released in 2008 and received in 2010 the Pocket Gold award.
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Johan Theorin
Throughout his life, Johan Theorin has been a regular visitor to the Baltic island of Öland. His mother’s family – sailors, fishermen and farmers - have lived there for centuries, nurturing the island’s rich legacy of strange tales and folklore. A journalist by profession, Johan now lives in Gothenburg.
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Andreas Gruber
Andreas Gruber, geboren 1968 in Wien, studierte an der dortigen Wirtschaftsuniversität und lebt als freier Schriftsteller mit seiner Frau in Grillenberg, Niederösterreich. Er hat bereits mehrere erfolgreiche und preisgekrönte Erzählungen und Romane verfasst. Die aktuelle Reihe um den knallharten, aber brillanten Ermittler Maarten S. Sneijder schockiert und fasziniert seine Fans gleichermaßen. Nach Todesfrist und Todesurteil erschien am 15. August 2016 Todesmärchen , der dritte Band der Reihe. Neben der „Todes-Reihe“ um Maarten S. Sneijder erscheint im Goldmann Verlag unter anderem auch die „Rache-Reihe“ um den asthmakranken Leipziger Ermittler Walter Pulaski.
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Viveca Sten
Viveca Sten made her author debut with crime novel Still Waters. It soon became a huge hit with both critics and readers and today the author has sold almost 3 million copies of her books worldwide.
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In May 2014, her seventh novel, The Price of Power, was published in Sweden. It was hugely successful and Viveca cemented her place as one of the country’s most popular authors. Her Sandhamn Murder Series continues to top the best seller charts, not to mention the whopping success of the TV mini-series that is based on Viveca’s novels. An estimated 30 million people around the globe have been watching the adventures of Nora and Thomas unfold on the TV screen.
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Tom Egeland
Born in 1959, Egeland worked as journalist for a magazine and as a reporter and editor for Aftenposten before working in television. In 2006, he became a full-time fiction writer. His books include horror, suspense, and multiple children's book. His most famous novel, Relic, which predated Dan Brown's blockbuster The Da Vinci Code, is so simillar some readers speculated it influenced Brown, but the author has said they simply drew on similar sources. In 2009 he won the Riverton Prize.
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Helena Dahlgren
Författare till böckerna om 100 hemskaste, Orkidépojken och nu senast böckerna om Ödesryttarna: Jorvik kallar och Legenden vaknar. Jag är även verksam som översättare. Bor i Tyresö utanför Stockholm med tvillingdöttrar och katt.
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Steffen Jacobsen
Steffen Jacobsen is an orthopaedic surgeon and consultant. This is his third novel. He was inspired to write When The Dead Awaken by Roberto Saviano's non-fiction book, Gomorrah, about the Camorra and by his travels around Italy. He lives in Denmark.
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Johan Rundberg
Johan Rundberg föddes 1973 i Knislinge i Skåne, men bosatte sig som vuxen i Stockholm. Han upptäckte glädjen i att skriva och läsa under tidiga skolår, och var en flitig biblioteksbesökare. Så småningom läste han litteraturvetenskap och tv-produktion på universitetet. Det ledde honom till jobb på SVT och MTG. Från sin utbildningstid hade han även erfarenhet av att jobba med bildsatta manus. Därifrån hämtade han inspiration till att också prova att göra bilderböcker.
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Kristina Ohlsson
Kristina Ohlsson is a political scientist and until recently held the position of Counter-Terrorism Officer at OSCE (the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe). She has previously worked at the Swedish Security Service, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Swedish National Defense College, where she was a junior expert on the Middle East conflict and the foreign policy of the European Union. Kristina lives in Stockholm.
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Hilde Susan Jægtnes
Hilde Susan Jægtnes er født i Pennsylvania, USA av norske foreldre og har siden bodd i Norge, Frankrike, Island, England, Florida, Sveits, Honduras og California. Hun er utdannet skuespiller og musiker ved Rose Bruford College i London, har en bachelorgrad i statsvitenskap og internasjonale relasjoner fra San Francisco State University og en mastergrad i film- og TV-manusskriving fra University of Southern California i Los Angeles. Jægtnes skriver prosa, lynprosa og poesi samt manus for film, TV og teater.
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Monica Rehn
MONICA REHN is an author and a lawyer with many years of experience as Head of Legal in the oil industry. In 2019 she made her literary debut with the suspense novel MORATORIUM. It was well-received by the critics and described as an unputdownable and breathtaking debut. Today, Monica has left central Stockholm for the more rural environment of the village Bålsta.
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In 2023, her second novel, the psychological thriller LIAR, was published by Polaris. It is set in Stockholm and follows a well-to-do, middle-aged author who is suddenly accused of a terrible crime. But who is the anonymous accuser and, most importantly, why is this person pointing their finger at him?
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Julia Chapman
Julia Chapman has led a nomadic existence, spending most of her adult life abroad. Having published a series of novels set in the idyllic French Pyrenees, she has now turned her hand to crime. Currently writing the Dales Detective Series, she lives and writes in the stunning Yorkshire Dales where her books are set. The first in the series, Date with Death, makes its debut in March 2017.
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Carin Gerhardsen
From the same publishing team that brought you Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy comes Carin Gehardsen, author of the Hammarby series, a series of crime novels that take place in the southern parts of Stockholm.
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Originally a mathematician, which explains her clever plots and complex characters, Gerhardsen is the author of the Hammarby-series, crime novels that take place in the southern parts of
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Katarina Bivald
Katarina Bivald is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend and The Murders in Great Diddling.
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She grew up working part-time in a bookshop and lives in Sweden outside Stockholm with her books and her dog. -
Chris Carter
Biographies can be an absolute drag, so I won’t bore anyone with a long life story.
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I was born in Brasilia, Brazil where I spent my childhood and teenage years. After graduating from high school, I moved to the USA where I studied psychology with specialization in criminal behaviour. During my University years I held a variety of odd jobs, ranging from flipping burgers to being part of an all male exotic dancing group.
I worked as a criminal psychologist for several years before moving to Los Angeles, where I swapped the suits and briefcases for ripped jeans, bandanas and an electric guitar. After a spell playing for several well known glam rock bands, I decided to try my luck in London, where I was fortunate enough to have played for a numbe -
Paul Cleave
Paul Cleave is an internationally bestselling author who is currently dividing his time between his home city of Christchurch, New Zealand, where all of his novels are set, and Europe, where none of his novels are set. His work has been translated into fifteen languages. He has won the Ngaio Marsh award for best crime novel in New Zealand, he won the Saint-Maur book festival's crime novel of the year in France, has been shortlisted for the Edgar Award and the Barry Award in the US, and shortlisted for the Ned Kelly award in Australia. When he's not writing, he spends his time swearing on a golf course, swearing on a tennis court, or trying to add to his list of 25 countries where he's thrown his Frisbee.
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Åke Edwardson
Åke Edwardson is a Swedish author of detective fiction, and a professor at Gothenburg University, the city where many of his Inspector Winter novels are set. Edwardson has had many jobs, including a journalist and press officer for the United Nations, and his crime novels have made him a three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers' Award for best crime novel. His first novel to be translated into English, in 2005, was Sun and Shadow. The second, Never End, followed in 2006.
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Jessica Schiefauer
Jessica Schiefauer är född 1978 och uppvuxen i Kungälv utanför Göteborg. Hon har gått skrivarutbildningar på Fridhems folkhögskola, Bona folkhögskola och Nordiska folkhögskolan. Hon har även studerat svenska, engelska och litteraturvetenskap vid Göteborgs universitet och har en pedagogisk examen i språk och kreativt skrivande.Vid sidan om författarskapet arbetar Jessica med kurser i språk och skrivande.
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Katrine Engberg
Katrine Engberg is a Danish crime fiction author and former choreographer, dancer, stage director and actor.
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Her debut novel was the novel “Crocodile Guardian” otherwise known as “The Tenant” that she first published in 2016 to widespread popularity. The book became a massive hit among reviewers and readers and got several nominations for a range of prestigious awards. She followed it up with “Blood Moon” an excellent crime novel that the Copenhagen newspaper wrote that crime queens should be shaking in their boots at the upstart soon taking their place. The novel would earn her an author of the year nomination. She would then write her third novel in the series titled “Glasvinge,” which was also a huge success just like her previous two wo -
Frida Skybäck
I hela sitt liv har Frida drömt om att bli författare och redan i tidig ålder var det roligaste hon visste att skriva berättelser som sedan lästes upp för vänner och familj.
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2007 började Frida blogga om sin resa i samband med att hon skickade in sitt första deckarmanus till en handfull utvalda förlag. Flera av dem visade intresse för det hon hade skrivit och Frida fortsatte att producera polisromaner.
2010 beslöt Frida, efter att ha sjukskrivits för utmattningssyndrom, att göra ett sista försök att bli utgiven genom att prova en ny genre. Detta visade sig vara ett lyckokast och i oktober 2011 debuterade hon med den historiska kärleksromanen Charlotte Hassel.
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Anders Roslund
Anders Roslund is a Swedish author and journalist. He is the founder and former head of Kulturnyheterna (Culture News) on SVT, Sweden's national television broadcaster. For many years he worked as a news reporter – specializing in criminal and social issues – and as an Editor-in-chief at Rapport and Aktuellt, the two major News programmes on SVT.
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Helene Holmström
Heléne Holmström is the author of Working Late, Office Affair, After Hours, Time to Rise and Dancing in the Dark. In addition to writing, Heléne still works part-time as an associate attorney. Another of her main interests is food and wine, while writing, she simultaneously studied to become a sommelier.
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Her idea of a perfect Friday night is having a glass of red wine with a large pretzel, listening to sad love songs while writing love stories with happy endings.
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Åsa Hellberg
Åsa Hellberg is a bestselling Swedish author published in almost 20 countries around Europe. Her stories about strong, sexy, 50-plus women -their love life and struggles, has been on top lists since the first release of "Sonjas sista vilja" in 2012.
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Inte utan min syster, (Not without my sister) based on a true dramatic story from Åsa´s own family, is the first book in a new 3-book series of historic novels and will be released in aug 2022 in Sweden.
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Mari Jungstedt
Mari Jungstedt is a Swedish journalist and popular crime fiction author.
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Jungstedt worked as a reporter on Swedish national public radio and television, and was an occasional presenter on TV4's daily talk show Förkväll.
Her first three novels are set on the island of Gotland and feature Detective Superintendent Anders Knutas and the journalist Johan Berg. Two of her novels were filmed for Swedish TV, and her work has been translated into English by Tiina Nunnally.
Mari Jungstedt lives in Stockholm. Her husband comes from Visby, Gotland, and they spend their summers on Gotland.
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Katarina Wennstam
Katarina Wennstam är en av Sveriges mest lästa författare med en bakgrund som kriminaljournalist i SVT. Som frontfigur i den svenska debatten om kvinnors rättigheter och lika villkor har Wennstam varit avgörande för flera viktiga lagändringar, bland annat den nya samtyckeslagen som trädde i kraft 2018. Sekelskiftesmorden innebär en vändning i Wennstams författarskap, utan att skifta fokus från kvinnofrågorna.
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Efter två decennier som journalist, författare och debattör i feministiska och kriminalpolitiska frågor har Katarina idag en hög trovärdighet och en stor plattform på sociala medier. Hennes böcker har älskats av läsare och litteraturkritiker och hennes första bok, Flickan och skulden, betraktas idag som en kultbok. -
Ruth Kvarnström-Jones
Ruth Kvarnström-Jones (född 1962) är född och uppvuxen i Storbritannien, men bor i Stockholm sedan 30 år tillbaka. Lika länge har hon arbetat som copywriter, med allt ifrån tryckt media till webbsidor och slogans i butiksfönster.
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Vissa blir franko- eller anglofiler i tonåren. Andra, som Ruth Kvarnström-Jones, snöar in på Sverige.
– Scoutföreningen i byn hade ett utbyte med Karlstadsscouterna och jag drömde om att lära mig svenska. Därför läste jag Scandinavian Studies i London och fick bo i Sverige ett halvt år redan första läsåret. Vilken sommar! Jag la alla pengar på svenska skivor, tidningar och glass.
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Camilla Grebe
Camilla Grebe is an entrepreneur and a former publisher and CEO. She lives in Stockholm, Sweden. Her sister is Åsa Träff.
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Jørn Lier Horst
Jorn Lier Horst (born in Bamble, Telemark 1970) is a former Senior Investigating Officer at the Norwegian police force. He made his literary debut as a crime writer in 2004 and is considered one of the foremost Nordic crime writers.
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His series of mystery novels starring chief inspector William Wisting provides a detailed and authentic insight into how criminal cases are investigated and how it affects those involved, whether private or professional. The books represent a simple and accurate picture of the modern Nordic societies and is characterized by political and social commentary subtext. -
Carin Hjulström
Carin Hjulström är förutom författare även journalist, manusförfattare och programledare. Hon har bland annat lett Melodifestivalen, Carin med C, TV-huset och Carin 21:30, och skriver regelbundet i ett flertal tidningar. Hösten 2009 bokdebuterade hon med Finns inte på kartan. En rad omtyckta romaner har därefter avlöst varandra och vunnit en stor och trogen läsarskara. Carin Hjulström har blivit känd för sina varma, humoristiska och mycket mänskliga berättelser med teman som sträcker sig från brutala politiska mord till trevande nätdejting och feelgood.
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Michael Hjorth
Michael Hjorth is one of the owners and founders of the succesful production company Tre vänner, creating films for both TV and screen. Apart from screen writing he has also acted as executive producer for several films.
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The Sebastian Bergman series, which Hjorth has co-written together with Hans Rosenfeldt, has been a huge success in several countries and was also made into a TV series, aired by Swedish Television. -
Kristina Ohlsson
Kristina Ohlsson is a political scientist and until recently held the position of Counter-Terrorism Officer at OSCE (the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe). She has previously worked at the Swedish Security Service, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Swedish National Defense College, where she was a junior expert on the Middle East conflict and the foreign policy of the European Union. Kristina lives in Stockholm.
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Marianne Cedervall
Marianne Elisabet Cedervall, född den 20 februari 1949 i Halla socken på Gotland, är en svensk författare, som debuterade vintern 2009. Hon arbetade som arbetsgivarkonsult på Svenska kyrkans arbetsgivarorganisation, men är nu pensionerad. Hon bor i Västerås.
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I serien om Mirjam och Hervor finns fyra delar utgivna. Debuten Svinhugg är en spänningsroman som utspelar sig på Gotland. Uppföljaren Svartvintern utspelar sig i Tornedalen, Vittangi. I den tredje boken Spinnsidan är de tillbaka på Gotland. I fjärde boken Stormsvala reser de till New York. -
Lars Kepler
Lars Kepler is the pseudonym of critically acclaimed husband and wife team Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril, authors of the No. 1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series. With seven installments to date, the series has sold 13 million copies in 40 languages. The Ahndorils were both established writers before they adopted the pen name Lars Kepler, and have each published several acclaimed novels.
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Viveca Sten
Viveca Sten made her author debut with crime novel Still Waters. It soon became a huge hit with both critics and readers and today the author has sold almost 3 million copies of her books worldwide.
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In May 2014, her seventh novel, The Price of Power, was published in Sweden. It was hugely successful and Viveca cemented her place as one of the country’s most popular authors. Her Sandhamn Murder Series continues to top the best seller charts, not to mention the whopping success of the TV mini-series that is based on Viveca’s novels. An estimated 30 million people around the globe have been watching the adventures of Nora and Thomas unfold on the TV screen.
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Yrsa Sigurdardottir
AKA: Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
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Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic writer, of both crime-novels and children's fiction. She has been writing since 1998.
Her début crime-novel "Last Rituals" published in the US in 2007, and the UK in January 2008 was translated into English by Bernard Scudder, and is book 1 of the Thóra Gudmundsdóttir series.
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir graduated from high-school in 1983, finished a B.Sc. in civil engineering from the University of Iceland in 1988 and M.Sc in the same field from Concordia University in Montreal in 1997.
Yrsa now works as a civil engineer for the company Fjarhitun, as well as being a writer.
In 2000 the Icelandic department of IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) awarded Yrsa for her book Við -
Thomas Erikson
Thomas Erikson is a behaviourist and the bestselling author of the Surrounded by- series about human behaviours.
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The series, has been translated to close to 60 languages and has sold over 8 million copies.
His mission is to make people’s lives easier by making them more aware of themselves and help people to a better understanding of what it takes to achieve the best possible communication.
He is a highly sought-after public speaker with 120 keynotes yearly on topics such as human behaviours, self-awareness, , narcissism, and leadership.
He lives by the simple but useful quote:
You can’t change somebody else, but you can change yourself.
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Sara Molin
Sara Molin, född 1983, bor i Sollentuna med man och tre barn. Hon är gymnasielärare i svenska och svenska som andraspråk, och ägnar sin lediga tid åt att sluka underhållningslitteratur.
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A.K. Turner
A.K.A. Anya Lipska
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A K Turner likes to create memorable characters, throw them into unusual settings, and add a hefty dose of murder and a twisty-turny plot. Her latest book, Body Language, introduces a new kind of forensic heroine - a crime-solving Goth-girl mortuary technician who talks to the dead, a character first launched in two crime shorts aired on BBC Radio 4. A K's previous series, written under the pen name Anya Lipska, starred a London-based Polish fixer who's happy to crack heads to solve crimes - which saw her being selected for Val McDermid's prestigious New Blood Panel at Harrogate Crime Festival in 2012.
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Jesper Stein
Jesper Stein er født i Århus i 1965. Han er uddannet journalist og har arbejdet som litteraturskribent, rets- og kriminalreporter i København. I dag er han fuldtids forfatter.
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I 2008 skrev han bestselleren Man jager et bæst og fanger et menneske sammen med Bent Isager-Nielsen.
I 2012 udkom hans skønlitterære debut Uro, der indbragte ham Det Danske Kriminalakademis Debutantpris.
I 2013 udkom bind 2 i serien om Axel Steen, Bye Bye Blackbird. De udenlandske rettigheder er solgt til Italien, Tyskland, Island, Norge, Rumænien, Holland og Sverige.
I 2014 udkom 3. bind i serien om Axel steen, Akrash.
I 2015 udkom 4. bind i Axel Steen serien, Aisha som indbragte Jesper Stein De Gyldne Laurbær.
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Stefan Ahnhem
”As a kid, I never dreamt of being a writer. Putting letters in the right order to form words did not come easily to me. In school, while the rest of my class had Swedish lessons, a strange-smelling lady would pull me out of the classroom to play with wooden blocks painted with colourful letters.
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For as long as I can remember, however, I have been a passionate storyteller. Growing up as an only child undoubtedly sparked my creativity, and all the hours spent playing by myself fed my vivid imagination. My grandfather’s rocking chair was a marvellous spacecraft able to transport me to all the planets in the universe. And the world map that my teacher stubbornly refused to pull down revealed precisely where the secret treasure was buried.
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Johanna Holmström
Johanna Holmström, född 1981, är uppvuxen i Sibbo men bor numera i Helsingfors. Hon debuterade år 2003 med novellsamlingen Inlåst och andra noveller som nominerades till Sveriges Radios novellpris. Med den tredje samlingen Camera Obscura erhöll hon bland annat Svenska Dagbladets litteraturpris. Hennes roman Asfaltsänglar har översatts till åtta språk. Hon har hyllats som en författare som går direkt på smärtpunkterna i mänskliga relationer och i det komplicerade i att existera som människa.
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Johanna Lindbäck
Johanna Kristina Lindbäck is a Swedish author. She worked as a teacher until 2013, when she became a fulltime author.
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John Case
Writing as 'John Case,' Jim and Carolyn Hougan are The New York Times best-selling authors of The Genesis Code and five other thrillers.
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An award-winning investigative reporter, Jim is the author of The Magdalene Cipher, a novel of conspiracy, and two non-fiction books about the CIA: Spooks and Secret Agenda.
Carolyn is the author of four novels, including The Romeo Flag.
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Lars Kepler
Lars Kepler is the pseudonym of critically acclaimed husband and wife team Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril, authors of the No. 1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series. With seven installments to date, the series has sold 13 million copies in 40 languages. The Ahndorils were both established writers before they adopted the pen name Lars Kepler, and have each published several acclaimed novels.
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Samuel Bjørk
Samuel Bjørk is the pen name of Norwegian novelist, playwright and singer/songwriter Frode Sander Øien.
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Bjørk’s first installment in the Mia and Munch Series, I’m Traveling Alone, is an international success story that has gained critical acclaim and captivated readers all over the world, including hitting #1 on German newspaper Der Spiegel‘s bestseller list.
Samuel Bjørk has been compared to the likes of both Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbø, and has proved himself to be a force to be reckoned with in the crime genre. -
Albert Villaró
Albert Villaró (Seu d'Urgell, Alt Urgell, 1964) és un escriptor urgellenc, de professió arxiver i arqueòleg, destacat sobretot en el camp de la novel·la històrica. Col·labora en les publicacions Segre i Diari d'Andorra.
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Seichō Matsumoto
Seicho Matsumoto (松本清張, Matsumoto Seichō), December 21, 1909 – August 4, 1992) was a Japanese writer.
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Matsumoto's works created a new tradition of Japanese crime fiction. Dispensing with formulaic plot devices such as puzzles, Matsumoto incorporated elements of human psychology and ordinary life into his crime fiction. In particular, his works often reflect a wider social context and postwar nihilism that expanded the scope and further darkened the atmosphere of the genre. His exposé of corruption among police officials as well as criminals was a new addition to the field. The subject of investigation was not just the crime but also the society in which the crime was committed.
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Alex Marwood
Alex Marwood is a former journalist who worked extensively across the British press. Her first novel, The Wicked Girls, achieved widespread acclaim and international bestsellerdom. It was shortlisted for ITW, Anthony and Macavity awards, was included in Stephen King's Ten Best Books of the Year list, and won the prestigious Edgar Award. The Killer Next Door, her second novel, won the coveted Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel, was nominated for the Anthony and Barry. The Darkest Secret, the tale of the disappearance of young Coco, met with critical and reader acclaim. The Poison Garden will be released in 2019. She has also been shortlisted for numerous other crime writing awards and her first two novels have been optioned for the screen
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Alex Ahndoril
The pseudonym Alex Ahndoril is a new collaboration between Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril, the authors behind Lars Kepler.
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Heidi Amsinck
Heidi Amsinck won the Danish Criminal Academy's Debut Award for My Name is Jensen (2021), the first book in a new series featuring Copenhagen reporter sleuth Jensen and her motley crew of helpers. She published her second Jensen novel, The Girl in Photo, in July 2022, and the third, Back from the Dead, in February 2024. A journalist by background, Heidi spent many years covering Britain for the Danish press, including a spell as London Correspondent for the broadsheet daily Jyllands-Posten. She has written numerous short stories for BBC Radio 4, such as the three-story sets Danish Noir, Copenhagen Confidential and Copenhagen Curios, all produced by Sweet Talk and featuring in her collection Last Train to Helsingør (2018). Heidi's work has b
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Malin Stehn
Name: Malin Stehn
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Born: 1969 in Boden (in the very north of Sweden)
Grew up: in Katrineholm (close to Stockholm)
I live: in an old house outside Malmö (in the very south of Sweden)
Family: married to Micke, a son and a daughter
Pets: Two cats. Peps, born 2020 and Bisou, born 2022
What I do : I am a full time author. My first book was published in 2006 and since then I have written more than 40 books for young readers. My first novel for adult readers, the psychological thriller Happy New Year , was published in 2021 and sold to 19 countries. It was followed by Happily Ever After (2023) and Hip Hip Hooray (2025).
Education: Master of Arts in literary studies at the University of Lund
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Niklas Natt och Dag
Niklas Natt och Dag (“Night and Day”) debuted as an author with the historical literary novel 1793. Natt och Dag himself has an undeniable connection to Swedish history, being a member of the oldest surviving noble family in Sweden. When he isn’t writing or reading, Natt och Dag enjoys playing the guitar, mandolin, violin, or the Japanese bamboo flute, shakuhachi.
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Åsa Linderborg
Åsa Natacha Linderborg (née Andersson, born 20 May 1968) is a Swedish writer and historian. She writes regularly for Aftonbladet, where she works as chief cultural editor.
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Åsa Linderborg was born in the city of Västerås, where she also grew up. Her father worked as a metalworker and her mother, Tanja Linderborg, is a former politician and Member of Parliament for the Left Party – Communists. Åsa Linderborg herself became a member of the Left Party – Communists in 1980 and the following year of its youth wing, the Communist Youth. In 1987 she became an ombudsman for the Communist Youth in Mälardalen.
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Carl-Johan Vallgren
He is the author of eight novels, of which The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot is the first novel to be translated into English. His novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. He lives in Stockholm.
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Jørgen Jæger
Jørgen Jæger er en kritikerrost norsk krimforfatter. Som forfatter er han kjent for en serie kriminalromaner med lensmann Ole Vik i rollen som etterforsker. Bøkene er frittstående, men man vil følge dramatiske hendelser i hovedpersonenes liv fra bok til bok.
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Han debuterte som kriminalromanforfatter med "Skyggejakten" i 2003. Jægers endelige gjennombrudd kom i 2012 med kriminalroman "Stemmen", hans sjette utgivelse.
Jægers sjette kriminalroman, "Stemmen", hans åttende, "Monster", hans niende, "Fortielsen" og hans tiende, "Guden", ble alle nominert til Bokhandlerprisen i 2012, 2015, 2016 og 2017.
Han har også skrevet kriminalnoveller.
I 2016 ble det solgt hele 130.000 eksemplarer av bøkene hans i Norge. -
Martin Österdahl
Swedish thriller, suspense and crime author internationally published and currently translated in twelve languages.
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Creator of the Max Anger Series:
Ask No Mercy (Max Anger #1)
Ten Swedes Must Die (Max Anger #2)
Iron Angels (Max Anger #3 - published in April 2019)
Master of Science in Business Administration, Russian, Central European Studies.
Former TV and Film producer with credits that include being Exexutive Producer of The Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö 2013 and Stockholm 2016.
Former Director of Programmes at Swedish national broadcaster SVT.
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Marianne Cedervall
Marianne Elisabet Cedervall, född den 20 februari 1949 i Halla socken på Gotland, är en svensk författare, som debuterade vintern 2009. Hon arbetade som arbetsgivarkonsult på Svenska kyrkans arbetsgivarorganisation, men är nu pensionerad. Hon bor i Västerås.
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I serien om Mirjam och Hervor finns fyra delar utgivna. Debuten Svinhugg är en spänningsroman som utspelar sig på Gotland. Uppföljaren Svartvintern utspelar sig i Tornedalen, Vittangi. I den tredje boken Spinnsidan är de tillbaka på Gotland. I fjärde boken Stormsvala reser de till New York. -
Lotta Borg Skoglund
Lotta Borg Skoglund, allmänläkare och överläkare i psykiatri, lektor vid Uppsala universitet. Hon forskar inom neuropsykiatri och beroende och är grundare till SMART Psykiatri. Lotta är ofta anlitad som expert och debattör i tv och media och författare till Lyssnar din tonåring? (tillsammans med Liria Ortiz) och Adhd – från duktig flicka till utbränd kvinna. Lotta Borg Skoglund föreläser inom psykisk ohälsa och riskfyllda alkohol- och drogvanor, missbruk och neuropsykiatri, adhd/add.
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Michael Hjorth
Michael Hjorth is one of the owners and founders of the succesful production company Tre vänner, creating films for both TV and screen. Apart from screen writing he has also acted as executive producer for several films.
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The Sebastian Bergman series, which Hjorth has co-written together with Hans Rosenfeldt, has been a huge success in several countries and was also made into a TV series, aired by Swedish Television. -
Pascal Engman
Pascal Engman is a former journalist. Affected by the increasingly threatening rhetorics towards journalists in Sweden, he took some time off and travelled to Chile, where he wrote Patrioterna: a dark thriller about what can happen when people begin to act after their vitriolic words on social media.
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Alix Rickloff
Critically acclaimed author of historical fiction, Alix Rickloff’s family tree includes a knight who fought during the Wars of the Roses (his brass rubbing hangs in her dining room) and a soldier who sided with Charles I during the English Civil War (hence the family's hasty emigration to America). With inspiration like that, what else could she do but start writing her own stories? She lives in Maryland in a house that’s seen its own share of history so when she’s not writing, she can usually be found trying to keep it from falling down.
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Carin Hjulström
Carin Hjulström är förutom författare även journalist, manusförfattare och programledare. Hon har bland annat lett Melodifestivalen, Carin med C, TV-huset och Carin 21:30, och skriver regelbundet i ett flertal tidningar. Hösten 2009 bokdebuterade hon med Finns inte på kartan. En rad omtyckta romaner har därefter avlöst varandra och vunnit en stor och trogen läsarskara. Carin Hjulström har blivit känd för sina varma, humoristiska och mycket mänskliga berättelser med teman som sträcker sig från brutala politiska mord till trevande nätdejting och feelgood.
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Emmy Walt
Svensk författare från Gotland. Debuterade med thrillern Flykt 2023 och nominerades till årets debut Crimetime Awards 2023.
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Susanna Heli
Susanna Heli, a mother of two, has worked for many years giving emotional support to women and their partners during birth. She is an experienced doula and physiotherapist, specialising in psychosomatics, pregnancy and birth. Susanna gives lectures and educates midwives in universities and hospitals and runs birth preparation classes for mothers and their partners. She writes articles for magazines and midwifery books, and trains doulas and instructors in confident birth.
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Frida Skybäck
I hela sitt liv har Frida drömt om att bli författare och redan i tidig ålder var det roligaste hon visste att skriva berättelser som sedan lästes upp för vänner och familj.
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2007 började Frida blogga om sin resa i samband med att hon skickade in sitt första deckarmanus till en handfull utvalda förlag. Flera av dem visade intresse för det hon hade skrivit och Frida fortsatte att producera polisromaner.
2010 beslöt Frida, efter att ha sjukskrivits för utmattningssyndrom, att göra ett sista försök att bli utgiven genom att prova en ny genre. Detta visade sig vara ett lyckokast och i oktober 2011 debuterade hon med den historiska kärleksromanen Charlotte Hassel.
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Sarah Engell
Sarah Engell er født og opvokset i Tårnby, hvor barndommen gik med at læse og skrive. Allerede i børnehaven var hun optaget af at tegne og skrive små bøger, og i folkeskolen lavede og udgav hun sammen med en veninde et hjemmelavet magasin. Og så skrev hun selvfølgelig dagbog. ”Jeg skrev dagbog og fyldte tonsvis af notesbøger med historier om alt fra voldelige havmåger til dødsangst og svimlende ungdomsforelskelser. Jeg tror, det var min måde at forsøge at forstå verden og mig selv på. Det er det nok i virkeligheden stadig.” (Maria Roslev: Interview Forfatterweb, april 2015).
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Simon Gärdenfors
Simon Gärdenfors is a Swedish cartoonist, rapper, television presenter, and radio host.
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His comics are drawn in a round icon-like cartoony style, although their content is often realistic or autobiographical.
Alongside his childhood friend Calle Thörn, he is also a member of the underground hip-hop duo "Las Palmas" that received a lot of airtime on Swedish radio in the fall of 2004, primarily with the song "Spökskrivare" ("Ghostwriter"), claiming that it actually was Simon who had written all famous hip-hop songs. He is also part of an additional hip-hop project, Far och Son (Father and Son), featuring Frej Larsson of Slagsmålsklubben.
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Charles-Louis Philippe
Charles-Louis Philippe (4 August 1874 – 21 December 1909) French novelist, was born in Cérilly, Allier, Auvergne, on 4 August 1874, and died in Paris on 21 December 1909.
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Jerker Virdborg
Jerker Virdborg (born 1971) was brought up in Lindome outside Gothenburg but now lives in Stockholm. His literary debut in 2001 was with the short story collection Landhöjning två centimeter per natt, followed the year after by the novel Svart krabba which among other distinctions was awarded the Literature Prize of the Swedish magazine Vi.
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His subsequent novels Försvinnarna (2005), Mannen från Trinisla (2007) and Kall feber (2009) have all received huge critical acclaim, establishing Jerker Virdborg as one of Sweden’s foremost young writers.
Jerker Virdborgs novels have been translated into German, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Russian, Lithuanian and Finnish. -
Alex Ahndoril
The pseudonym Alex Ahndoril is a new collaboration between Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril, the authors behind Lars Kepler.
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E.P. Uggla
Emmelie Pettersén Uggla (E.P. Uggla) is a Swedish dystopian author who writes both for adults and young adults. She is born in the Southern parts of Sweden but now lives outside of Stockholm. She is a lawyer but has also studied a great deal of psychology and history of ideas. She has also studied Creative writing at Harvard extension school in Boston.
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She debuted with the dystopian horror novel First Fall: Blue Dawn in 2017. The second book in the same series, First Fall: Red Dusk came in 2020.
In January 2021 her third book, What’s wrong with Eden, a dystopian young adult novel, was published by Bonnier Carlsen. The upcoming sequel, The Fall from Eden, will be published by Bonnier Carlsen in January 2023.
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Michael Paine
Pseudonym for John Michael Curlovich
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Peter Mohlin
Peter Mohlin and Peter Nyström grew up together in a Swedish small town and created their first crime novel as 10-year-olds. After working professionally with editorial text and directing/scriptwriting for stage and film for many years, they decided to pick up where they left off in middle school and write a crime novel. They both love crime in all forms and realized their strengths were a fruitful combination: the journalist’s sharp pen mixed with the scriptwriter’s sense of dramaturgy and dialogue. The Bucket List, their debut novel, has been sold in 15 countries.
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Katarína Mikolášová
Absolvovala gymnázium a dvojročnú špecializáciu na projektovanie plynových inštalácií a zariadení. Od r. 1982 pracovala v stavebnej projekcii ako konštruktérka, od r. 1991 pracuje v projektovej firme ARCHPRO v Žiline, kde sa zaoberá ekonomikou a manažmentom, podniká v oblasti reklamy a vydavateľskej činnosti. Debutovala v r. 2003 zbierkou básní s témou lásky Cez oči k tebe vchádzam. V ďalších zbierkach Snívanie spod kože (2004), Tanec borovice (2006) sa okrem témy lásky stretávame aj s témami ľudskosti, mravnosti, nevšímavosti a povrchnosti, autorku zaujíma predmet individuálneho a kolektívneho svedomia. Pre deti napísala knihy Veselé básničky pre múdre detičky alebo knižka pre prváka Miška (2004), Frčka Huláková z Vyšných Krkahájov (2006),
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Petter Lidbeck
Karl Petter Lidbeck är en svensk författare. Han gick den 25 augusti 2010 ut med att det är han som är personen bakom hyllade pseudonymen Hans Koppel.
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Lidbeck har under sin karriär främst skrivit barnböcker, där det i hans bibliografi återfinns dryga tjugotalet sådana titlar. Han debuterade 1997 med romanen Linnea från Yuijang. I och med användandet av pseudonymen Hans Koppel har Lidbeck även börjat skriva vuxenlitteratur. -
Victoria Dowd
Victoria is a crime writer and her first novel, The Smart Woman’s Guide to Murder, won The People’s Book Prize 2020/2021. It was also In Search of the Classic Mystery’s book of the year 2020. It’s the first in the Smart Woman’s mystery series. The second is Body on the Island and the third, The Supper Club Murders is out on 16th September. They are a dark comedy take on the classic whodunnit.
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She is also an award winning writer of short fiction, having won the Gothic Fiction prize for short fiction by Go Gothic. She was the runner up in The New Writer’s writer of the year award and her work has been short listed and Highly commended by Writers’ Forum magazine. She was also long-listed for The Willesden Herald International Short Story Compet -
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Stav Sherez
Born in 1970, Sherez grew up in London and attended Latymer Upper School and the University of Leeds.
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Stav Sherez is a British novelist whose first novel The Devil's Playground was published in 2004 by Penguin Books and was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Dagger.
Sherez's second novel, The Black Monastery, is published by Faber & Faber in April 2009.
From 1999 to 2004 he was a main contributor to the music magazine Comes with a Smile.
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Fionnuala Kearney
Fionnuala discovered, age six, that she had in fact been christened Ann (that’s Ann with no ‘e’) and that her parents had decided, for some reason, to saddle her with a life of dealing with unnecessary vowels. At twenty she moved to London and marrying Mr. Kearney proved to be the best thing she ever did, apart from the fact that the vowel thing escalated further. Two daughters, both with deliberately simple mono syllabic names followed.
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She worked, for many years, in London as a home search agent (like Phil and Kirstie without the cameras) until she decided, one fateful day, that it was time for a change – time to pursue the dream of being a writer.
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Eystein Hanssen
Eystein Hanssen is the author of nine crime and thrillers novels. His books are available in Norway, Sweden and Germany.
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The Elli novels are among the most streamed audiobooks in Norway, with all seven titles reaching no. 1. His first two novels were shortlisted for the Norwegian Bookseller’s Award.
As of May 2021 Hanssen has written De ingen savner (2010, German title Totenmaler), Giftstrøm (2011, German title Blutgeld), Triangel (2012), Åtseldyr (2013, German title Knochen), Brennemerket (2015), Jaget (2017), En kort evighet (2019) and also the thrillers Svart landskap (2018) and Kokong (2021) .
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Johan Høst
Johan Høst (b.1971) debuted with the action thriller The Nation’s Gambit in 2022. The book good rave reviews in the press and film rights were sold before publication. The book is the first in a planned trilogy. He works as creative director and copywriter for an advertising agency he founded. He is also a former curling player – and four time Norwegian champion in the sport. Høst was born in Denmark, but moved to Norway as a child. He now lives in Lillehammer with his wife and three adult kids.
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Anna Maria Villalonga
Anna Maria Villalonga Fernández (Barcelona, 16 d'abril de 1959) és una escriptora catalana, crítica de literatura i cinema, traductora, investigadora i professora de literatura catalana a la Universitat de Barcelona. Dirigeix el festival Tiana Negra.
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Hassan Loo Sattarvandi
Hassan Loo Sattarvandi is a Iranian-Swedish author who grew up in Hagalund in Greater Stockholm.
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His debut Still (Style) was published in 2008 and depicts the lives of a few young working class men in Hagalund. It received the Swedish Katapultpriset i 2009 for the best debut the previous year.
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Johan Wanloo
Johan Wanloo (f. 1972) är en av Sveriges mest produktiva serietecknare som regelbundet publiceras i Göteborgs-Posten, Dagens Nyheter och serietidningar som Galago och Herman Hedning. Han är även poddare, barnboksillustratör och krönikör.
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Karel Michal
Vlastním jménem Pavel Buksa. První manžel spisovatelky Violy Fischerové (v r. 1993 vydala sbírku Zádušní básně za Pavla Buksu). – Narodil se v rodině lékaře. Po maturitě na gymnáziu (1951) rok příležitostně pracoval jako kovodělník, přidavač u zedníků, vedoucí geometr stavby hutí. 1952 začal studovat na Lékařské fakultě UK, po sedmi semestrech však studia opustil. Před nástupem základní vojenské služby (1957–59) byl správcem jízdárny, po ní dlaždičem a správcem přístavu. Po vydání první knihy (1961) se stal spisovatelem z povolání, současně působil jako externí lektor nakladatelství Čs. spisovatel, filmový dramaturg (1963) a redaktor Literárních novin (od 1966). 1968 odešel do exilu. Usadil se ve Švýcarsku, v Basileji, a začal pracovat jako
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Øistein Borge
Øistein Borge er en norsk krim- og ungdomsbokforfatter.
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Borge arbeidet i en årrekke i film- og reklamebransjen, som regissør, tekstforfatter og kreativ leder. Han har mottatt en lang rekke priser for sine arbeider både i Norge og utlandet, blant disse to gulløver fra reklamefilmfestivalen i Cannes.
Borge har utgitt en serie på tre romaner om ungdomshelten Nino Glass. I 2016 krimdebuterte Borge med sin første bok om Bogart Bull – «Den syvende demonen».
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Espen Skjerven
Espen Skjerven (f. 1974) er født og oppvokst i Oslo. Han bor i Sandnes med ektefelle og to barn.
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Skjerven jobber som tingrettsdommer i Sør-Rogaland tingrett. Han er også medlem av dommernes mediegruppe og Konkurranseklagenemnda. Han har bakgrunn som politiadvokat i Økokrim og Kripos og som forretningsadvokat/prosedyreadvokat.
På fritiden er han forfatter. Han har skrevet en krimserie om politimannen Tom Grayston: Slakt (2019), Blod er tykkere enn vann (2021), Kleptokratiet (2022) og Svikere (2024).
Ingenting å skjule (2025) er Skjervens første skjønnlitterære roman. Skjerven opplevde selv å miste håret som barn, og selv om historien er fiktiv, er den inspirert av egne erfaringer.
Med Svikere vant han Sølvkniven for årets beste krimroman. Han b