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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Charlotte Al-Khalili
Charlotte Al-Khalili (b. 1974) writes contemporary crime fiction and suspense. With a bachelor’s degree in legal science and a passion for true crime, her novels have a realistic style with dark undertones. Inspired by the newspaper headlines, she often depicts how regular people get entangled in circumstances beyond their control, and their struggle to navigate uncharted waters.
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Her first book, Skörda storm (Reap the Whirlwind), was published in 2018. It’s a chilling tale of the malicious and Machiavellian quest for power in a workplace, and the trail of collateral damages that follows. The conflicts and double crossings are laced with sharp wit and are recognized by those who have ever encountered a corporate psychopath.
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William Älgebrink
William Älgebrink, född 1997 och bosatt i Jokkmokk, är kommunikatör och filmskapare. Han har bland annat läst den skönlitterära projektkursen vid Jakobsbergs författarskola och manusutbildningen Story Masterclass på Gotland. Han har fått Bok & Bild Luleås novellpris år 2020 med Jag blöder som vilken annan son som helst och skrivit och regisserat kortfilmen Så låt sorgen komma som hade premiär 2023. Huset vid Pärlälvens slut är hans debutroman.
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Jon Jordås
Jon Jordås är dokumentärchef på produktionsbolaget Filt. Han har bevakat ett stort antal olika kriminalfall som journalist och bland annat jobbat med prisbelönta P3 Dokumentär om Palmeutredningen inifrån.
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John Ajvide Lindqvist
John Ajvide Lindqvist (John Erik Ajvide Lindqvist) is a Swedish author who grew up in Blackeberg, the setting for Let the Right One In . Wanting to become something awful and fantastic, he first became a conjurer, and then was a stand-up comedian for twelve years. He has also written for Swedish television.
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His Let the Right One In was a bestseller in Sweden and was named Best Novel in Translation 2005 in Norway. He also is the author of Handling the Undead and Harbor .
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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. -
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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Echoes from the Dead (originally published in Sweden as Skumtimmen) is Johan’s first novel. In 2007 it was voted Best First Mystery Novel by the authors and critics of the Swedish Academy of Crime, and it has been translated into twelve languages. -
Joakim Zander
Born in Stockholm, Joakim Zander has lived in Syria, Israel, and the USA, before settling in Helsinki where he now lives. He studied law at Uppsala and Maastricht Universities, and his award-winning PhD thesis was published by Cambridge University Press. He now works as a lawyer for the European Union.
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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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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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Sven-Eric Liedman
Sven-Eric Liedman (born 1939) is a Swedish author and Professor Emeritus of History of Ideas at the University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Theoretical Philosophy at Lund University in 1959. In 1961 he received a Licentiate of Philosophy degree in the same subject. His most important teacher in Lund was Gunnar Aspelin. He then moved to the University of Gothenburg where he received his Ph.D. in History of Ideas in 1966.
In 1966-1968 he worked at Sydsvenskan, a major newspaper in southern Sweden. In 1968 he held a temporary position at Lund University. In 1979 he was appointed Professor of History of Ideas at the University of Gothenburg, where he remained until his retirement in 2006.
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Göran Tunström
Göran Tunström was a Swedish novelist best known for Juloratoriet (The Christmas Oratorio).
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Sara Bergmark Elfgren
Sara Bergmark Elfgren (a.k.a. Sara B. Elfgren) is an award-winning Swedish writer, screenwriter and playwright. She made her debut with the YA novel The Circle (2011), which she co-wrote with Mats Strandberg. The Circle was the first part in the Engelsfors trilogy, and it has been translated into twenty-five languages.
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Since her debut, Elfgren has written critically acclaimed novels, children's books, graphic novels, audio dramas, plays, screenplays and TV scripts.
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Elisabeth Åsbrink
Elisabeth Katherine Åsbrink is a Swedish author and journalist.
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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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Leif G.W. Persson
Leif Gustav Willy Persson - better known as Leif GW Persson - is a Swedish criminologist and novelist. He was a professor in criminology at the Swedish National Police Board from 1992 to 2008.
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He is known for his crime fiction novels and for his regular appearances as an expert commentator on notable crime cases in television and newspapers. Between 1999 and 2009 he participated as an expert commentator on the television show Efterlyst (Swedish TV program, equivalent of America's Most Wanted) on TV3. Since 2010, he is the expert commentator of Veckans Brott - roughly translated into Weekly Crimes or Crimes of the Week - on SVT. -
Johanna Bäckström Lerneby
Johanna Bäckström Lerneby är journalist och författare. Hon har mottagit Stora Journalistpriset i kategorin »Årets berättare« och nominerats till en Guldspade i klassen »Bok« för Handelsvara: Kvinna.
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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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Augustin Erba
Hej och välkommen till min författarsida här på Goodreads. Först: vad glad jag är att du inte bara läser utan att du också finns med i den här bokgemenskapen. Jag försöker också skriva in böcker som jag har läst, för att ha koll, men också för att se vad andra har tyckt. Och så är jag förstås glad och tacksam över alla recensioner och omdömen som lämnas om mina egna böcker. Jag läser alla och försöker ta till mig såväl beröm som kritik och göra bättre ifrån mig nästa gång.
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Jag skriver böcker för alla åldrar, så jag hoppas att du ska hitta något som kan passa dig.
Nästa nya bok kommer i höst, heter "Björnpojken" och handlar om en pojke som är elva år och som följt med sin pappa norrut, de är utsända av kalifen i Bagdad för att undersöka de d -
Per Olov Enquist
Per Olov Enquist, better known as P. O. Enquist was one of Sweden's internationally best known authors. He has worked as a journalist, playwright, and novelist. In the nineties, he gained international recognition with his novel The Visit of The Royal Physician.
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After a degree in History of literature at Uppsala University he worked as a newspaper columnist and TV debate moderator from 1965 to 1976. Because of his work he soon became an influential figure on the Swedish literary scene. From 1970 to 1971 Enquist lived in Berlin on a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service and in 1973 he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has been working as an independent writer since 1977.
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Malin Lindroth
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Nora Khalil
Nora Khalil (f. 1997) är en svensk författare.
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Khalil är uppvuxen i Alby i Botkyrka kommun. Hon är utbildad lärare och avlade examen från lärarprogrammet 2020. År 2022 romandebuterade hon med ungdomsboken Yani. Boken nominerades till Augustpriset i kategorin barn- och ungdomsböcker samma år, belönades med Hjärtans fröjd-priset för Sveriges bästa ungdomsroman 2022, nominerades till debutantpriset Slangbellan samt till Nils Holgersson-plaketten för 2022 års bästa barn- och ungdomsbok. I maj 2023 kom uppföljaren Abow.
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Patrik Svensson
Lars Patrik Svensson (born 1972) is a Swedish journalist and author. Svensson works in the cultural editorial department of Sydsvenskan and Helsingborgs Dagblad.
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In the summer of 2019, he made his debut as an author with the book Ålevangeliet, which is partly a non-fiction book about the eel as a species and about the eel's cultural history, and partly an autobiographical story about the author and his father. Rights to publish the book have been purchased in 2019 for publication in 33 other languages. The book received the August Prize for Swedish Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2019. -
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Majgull Axelsson
Majgull Axelsson (b. 1947) is a famous Swedish journalist and writer. She grew up in Nässjö and had education in journalism.
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Her first book was non-fiction, and focused on the problems of child prostitution and street children in third world, and poverty in Sweden. April witch is her second novel, and one that was well received in Sweden. With over 400,000 copies sold in hardcover, It landed on several bestsellers lists for months and received important Swedish literature awards including the Moa Martinsson Prize Jörgen Eriksson's Prize and Augustpriset. It addresses themes of mother-daughter relationships, competition between women, and the failures of Sweden's postwar welfare state.
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Göran Rosenberg
Göran Jakob Rosenberg is a Swedish journalist and author. He is the son of David and Hala Rosenberg from Łódz in Poland, who both came to Sweden after having survived concentration camps during World War II.
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Rosenberg has worked at Sveriges Radio and Sveriges Television; 1979–85 he was host and reporter of the actuality-program Magasinet. In 1990 he founded the magazine Moderna Tider which he was editor-in-chief of until 1999, and he also hosted the actuality-program with the same name which was broadcast in TV3. 1991–2011 he worked as columnist at Dagens Nyheter. He workes as honorary degree at the University of Gothenburg.
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Gustaf Skördeman
Gustaf Skordeman (b. 1965) was born in Sweden and is a screenwriter, director and producer. Geiger is his literary debut. It is sold for publication in more than 20 languages.
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Annika Thor
Annika Thor grew up in a Jewish family in Gothenburg, Sweden, in the 1950s and 60s. She started work as a librarian and then went on to work as a film and television critic, and finally dedicated herself to writing books, plays, and screenplays for young people. She is one of Sweden’s best known authors for young people. Her books have been translated into many languages and have won many prizes.
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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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Fanny Klang
Fanny Klang är född 1998 och har sedan 2021 arbetat på kriminalvårdsanstalter inom alla tre säkerhetsklasser på olika platser i landet, samt ett säkerhetshäkte. Idag bor hon i Solna och studerar juristprogrammet på Stockholms universitet. Sluten anstalt är hennes debutroman.
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”När jag för första gången klev in bakom anstaltsgrindarna var jag idealistisk och humanistisk. Sedan: verkligheten. Personalomsättningen skyhög, platsbristen skriande, tystnadskulturen allomfattande. Total dissonans mellan reklamkampanjernas vackra ord och denna auktoritära, desillusionerade Sveriges tredje största myndighet. Efter inlåsning promenerar jag till hållplatsen, men mina tankar är kvar på anstalten. Det jag tänker är att verksamheten går helt emot myndighet -
Kerstin Ekman
Kerstin Lillemor Ekman is a Swedish novelist.
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She began her career with a string of successful detective novels (among others De tre små mästarna ("The Three Little Masters") and Dödsklockan ("The Death Clock")) but later went on to persue psychological and social themes. Among her later works are Mörker och blåbärsris ("Darkness and Blueberries"), set in northern Sweden, and Händelser vid vatten (translated as Blackwater), in which she returned to the form of the detective novel.
Ekman was elected a member of the Swedish Academy in 1978, but left the Academy in 1989, together with Lars Gyllensten and Werner Aspenström, due to the debate following death threats posed to Salman Rushdie. According to the rules of the Academy, however, she will -
Sara Stridsberg
Sara Stridsberg is a Swedish author and translator. Her first fiction novel, Happy Sally, was about Sally Bauer, the first Scandinavian to swim the English Channel.
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Martin Gelin
I'm the US Correspondent for Dagens Nyheter and the author of nine books on American politics and culture.
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I have written for The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Boston Review, The New Republic, LA Review of Books and Granta.
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Sofia Lundberg
Sofia Lundberg is a journalist and former magazine editor who made her debut with the word-of-mouth sensation The Red Address Book.
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Lauded by critics for her ability to sweep readers off their feet and take them on journeys through time and space, love and loss, Lundberg is the shining new star of heartwarming – and heart-wrenching – Scandinavian fiction. -
Susanna Alakoski
Susanna Alakoski is a Swedish-Finnish author and lecturer. She won the August Prize in 2006 for the novel Svinalängorna . She researches gender issues and works as a social worker.
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Andrev Walden
Andrev Igor Walden, född 14 maj 1976 i Mariefred, Södermanlands län, är en svensk författare, journalist och illustratör. Han skriver för Dagens Nyheter. Walden tilldelades Augustpriset 2023 för sin romandebut Jävla karlar, som också blev det årets bäst säljande svenska roman.
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Agri Ismaïl
Agri Ismaïl is a Kurdish author based in Sweden who has worked as a corporate lawyer in London, Dubai, and Iraqi Kurdistan.
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His debut novel Hyper will was published in January 2024.
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Geir Gulliksen
Geir Gulliksen, a Norwegian author and publisher, is from Kongsberg and resides in Oslo.
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He studied writing at Bø in 1985 and has worked as an editor at the publishing house Tiden Norsk Forlag. He has also helped popularize several important younger Norwegian authors, including Karl Ove Knausgaard. -
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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Mikael Niemi
Mikael Niemi is a Swedish author. He wrote the novel Populärmusik från Vittula (in English as Popular music from Vittula). It became a best-seller in Sweden and was subsequently translated into 30 languages.
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He first became famous by writing poetry, and he has published many collections of poetry, such as Änglar med mausergevär (Angels with mauserguns), Med rötter här uppe (With roots up here) and his very first, Näsblod under högmässan (Nosebleed during the high mass). He has also written many works for the theatre.
Many of his books contain some Meänkieli language, the local variety of Finnish.
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Håkan Nesser
Håkan Nesser is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a number of successful crime fiction novels. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the Glass Key award in 2000. His books have been translated from Swedish into numerous languages.
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Håkan Nesser was born and grew up in Kumla, and has lived most of his adult life in Uppsala. His first novel was published in 1988, but he worked as a teacher until 1998 when he became a full-time author. In August, 2006, Håkan Nesser and his wife Elke moved to Greenwich Village in New York.
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John Ajvide Lindqvist
John Ajvide Lindqvist (John Erik Ajvide Lindqvist) is a Swedish author who grew up in Blackeberg, the setting for Let the Right One In . Wanting to become something awful and fantastic, he first became a conjurer, and then was a stand-up comedian for twelve years. He has also written for Swedish television.
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His Let the Right One In was a bestseller in Sweden and was named Best Novel in Translation 2005 in Norway. He also is the author of Handling the Undead and Harbor .
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Sara Stridsberg
Sara Stridsberg is a Swedish author and translator. Her first fiction novel, Happy Sally, was about Sally Bauer, the first Scandinavian to swim the English Channel.
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In 2007, she was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for her novel Drömfakulteten (The Dream Faculty), which is her second novel and a fictitious story about Valerie Solanas, who wrote the SCUM manifesto, which Stridsberg has translated into Swedish. -
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. -
Jonas Moström
Jonas Moström är författare och läkare. Han debuterade 2004 med thrillern Dödens pendel. Uppföljaren Svart cirkel kom år 2006 och blev hans genombrott med över 80 000 sålda exemplar. Sedan dess har Moström nått stora framgångar med böckerna om kriminalkommissarie Johan Axberg. 2014 kom första boken om Nathalie Svensson, Himlen är alltid högre. I Dominodöden förenas de två serierna.
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Alex Schulman
Carl Magnus Alexander Schulman (born 17 February 1976 in Hemmesdynge) is a Swedish author, journalist, blogger and television and radio personality.
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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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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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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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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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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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Emelie Schepp
Anna Emelie Schepp, född den 5 september 1979 i Motala är svensk kriminalförfattare.
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1998 vann hon Östgötateaterns dramapristävling, Möten.
Schepp har tidigare arbetat som projektledare i reklambranschen och arbetar i dag som författare, skribent och krönikör. Hon är även en av programledarna för Deckarpodden, en podcast om livet som författare, och har dessutom skrivit två filmmanus.
År 2013 debuterade hon med kriminalromanen Märkta för livet på eget förlag som blev såld i 40 000 exemplar. Schepp har tecknat ett treboksavtal med Wahlström & Widstrand som hösten 2014 gav ut Märkta för livet på nytt. Märkta för livet är den första delen i serien om åklagare Jana Berzelius.
Idag har Märkta för livet sålt i närmare 200 000 ex enbart i Sverige.
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Elin Persson
Elin Persson (född 1992) är socialantropolog och har gått skrivarlinjen på Jakobsbergs folkhögskola. När hon inte skriver jobbar hon med socialt arbete. Hennes debutroman "De afghanska sönerna" är en brännande text som inte vill släppa taget. Den är också en hyllning till alla som jobbar på HVB-hem.
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Malin Haawind
Malin Haawind romandebuterade 2021 med boken De kom från öar som tar sin början strax efter krigsslutet 1945. De kom från öar handlar om vuxenblivande och familj, om systerskap, arbete och längtan. Det är första delen i en romantrilogi som formar berättelsen om en familj i folkhemmet, från små kustsamhällen till nybyggda höghus i industristaden. Andra delen i serien, Och havet gav igen kommer i september 2022, och tredje delen, In mot stenig strand, hösten 2023.
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Malin Haawind har tidigare skrivit fyra fackböcker om gräl, föräldraskap, mat och smuts. Hon är även verksam som redaktör och skrivarkursledare. -
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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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.
Framåt hösten tog hon tåget hem med alldeles för mycket bagage – bland annat en hel prinsesstårta – och kunde dessutom tala flytande svenska -
Ulrika Lagerlöf
Ulrika Lagerlöf works in communications within forestry since the past ten years. She lives in Uppsala and made her debut in 2021 with the novel Stanna hos mig (Stay with me).
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Her second novel, Cloudberry Mire (2024) is the first part in a series, and inspired by Ulrika Lagerlöf’s own family history. It has been praised by both readers and critics, and in 2025 the eagerly awaited second installment, Pale Soil will be published in Sweden, as well as six international launches of the first part. Cloudberry Mire starts in the late 1930’s, Pale Soil unfolds in the 1950’s and Heartwood in the 1960’s. -
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Anne Holt
Anne Holt was born in Larvik, grew up in Lillestrøm and Tromsø, and moved to Oslo in 1978. She graduated with a law degree from the University of Bergen in 1986, and went on to work for The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) and then the Oslo Police Department, earning her right to practice as a lawyer in Norway. In 1990 she returned to NRK, where she worked one year as a journalist and anchor woman for the news program Dagsrevyen.
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Holt started her own law practice in 1994, and served as Minister of Justice in Cabinet Jagland for a short period from November 25, 1996 to February 4, 1997.
In 1993 Holt made her debut as a novelist with the crime novel Blind gudinne, featuring the lesbian police officer Hanne Wilhelmsen. The two novels Løv -
Helene Flood
Pseudonym used by Helene Flood Aakvaag
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Helene Flood is a psychologist who obtained her doctoral degree on violence, revictimization and trauma-related shame and guilt in 2016. She now works as a psychologist and researcher at the National Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress. She lives in Oslo with her husband and two children. The Therapist is her first adult novel. It has been sold in 27 counties and film rights have been bought by Anonymous Content. Her second novel, The Lover, will be published in English in 2022. -
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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Karin Alvtegen
The Queen of Crime in Scandinavia.
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Missing was awarded the premier Scandinavian crime writing award the Glass Key in 2001 and was also nominated for the Poloni Award and Best Crime Novel 2000 in Sweden.
Shame was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie International Dagger award for crime novels in translation upon publication in English.
Alvtegen lives in Stockholm. She is grand-niece of the popular children's novelist Astrid Lindgren. -
Malin Persson Giolito
Malin Persson Giolito was born in Stockholm in 1969, and grew up in Djursholm. She has worked as a lawyer for the biggest law firm in the Nordic region and as an official for the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium.
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Persson Giolito has published three previous novels. Her latest novel, Quicksand (Störst av allt), was published by Wahlström & Widstrand in June 2016 and has been sold to 24 countries and was awarded the Best Crime Novel of the Year Award 2016, Sweden’s official suspense literature award, which is given by the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy.
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Tua Forsström
Tua Birgitta Forsström (born 2 April 1947) is a Finnish writer who writes in Swedish. She was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1998 for the poetry collection Efter att ha tillbringat en natt bland hästar. Forsström's work is known for its engagement with the Finnish landscape, travel and conflicts within relationships. She often uses quotations in her work, sometimes placing them directly into her poems and at other times using them as introductions or interludes in her sequences. She has used quotations from Egon Friedell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hermann Hesse and Friedrich Nietszche. In the collection After Spending a Night Among Horses (Efter att ha tillbringat en natt bland hästar) (1997) Forsström uses quotations from the An
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Kim Andrea Brofeldt
Kim Andrea Brofeldt debut was Bogen om hjemmefødsel in 2003 and wrote her first novel novel, Afslutninger, in 2023.
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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. -
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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Mariette Lindstein
Mariette Lindstein (born 1958) was raised in Halmstad on the west coast of Sweden.
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From a young age she had a knack for telling stories, ghost stories first then short novels that were published in teen magazines. By the time she graduated high school she had her sights set on a career in journalism.
These dreams evaporated when she was drawn to the Church of Scientology at age 19. She was rapidly promoted to the cult’s headquarters outside Los Angeles where she wound up staying for more than 20 years and worked at the highest levels, directly under Scientology leader David Miscavige.
She managed to escape 2004 under dramatic circumstances. Conditions at the Southern California compound became so disgraceful that the staff were virtual prisone -
Stina Jackson
Stina Jackson (b. 1983) hails from the northern town of Skellefteå in Sweden. Just over a decade ago she relocated to Denver, Colorado, where she penned her debut novel, the acclaimed The Silver Road. A runaway bestseller, the novel established Jackson as a rising new star within Nordic suspense.
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Awards
The Glass Key (Best Scandinavian Crime Novel) The Nordic Countries – Silvervägen 2019
Book of the Year Award Sweden – Silvervägen 2019
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Stig Larsson
Stig Håkan Larsson, född 20 juli 1955 i Skellefteå i Västerbottens län, är en svensk poet, dramatiker, romanförfattare, filmregissör samt kritiker. Han har varit medlem av redaktionen för tidskriften Kris och är bland annat känd för romanerna Autisterna och Nyår, pjäsen VD och filmen Kaninmannen.
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Bruno K. Öijer
Bruno Keats Öijer is a renowned contemporary Swedish poet. His first collection of poems "Sång för anarkismen"(Song for Anarchism) was published in 1973.
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Öijer is perhaps most appreciated as a stage performance poet, and has made notable appearances in front of large audiences. -
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. -
Ebba Witt-Brattström
Ebba Witt-Brattström (born 1953) is a Swedish scholar in comparative literature. She is Professor of Literature and head of department at Södertörn University outside Stockholm, and a well-known feminist. In the 1970s she was a member of the feminist organisation Grupp 8, and in 2005 she was one of the founders of the feminist political organisation and party Feministiskt Initiativ, although she later distanced herself from the organisation and criticized its alleged strong left-wing tendencies.
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Steve Sem-Sandberg
Steve Sem-Sandberg is a Swedish journalist, novelist, non-fiction writer and translator. He is the author of The Emperor of Lies . Sem-Sandberg divides his time between Vienna and Stockholm.
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Emma Ångström
Emma Ångström is an author and architect. She has a Master’s degree in architecture from the Royal Technical University in Stockholm and from Parsons in New York. Besides her writing she currently works as head of communications at an architectural firm in Stockholm, Sweden.
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She was born in 1982 in Västerås, Sweden, and started her writing career as a journalist at the age of 17. Since then, she has also worked as a lighting designer, and written non-fiction books about lighting design and architecture. -
Sara Paborn
Sara Paborn är född 18 mars 1972 i Sölvesborg. Hon skrev sitt första romanförsök när hon var 16 år, inspirerad av stämningen i Woody Allens film Radio Days. Hon hade då många års skrivande av noveller, dikter, första-kapitel till romaner och musikrecensioner i lokaltidningar bakom sig. ”Romanen” refuserades, liksom de två efterföljande försöken.
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Efter att hon fött sitt andra barn 2005, sa hon upp sig från sitt jobb som copywriter och började skriva det som blev hennes debutroman Släktfeber. Boken utkom på Brombergs våren 2009 och blev en omtalad publikframgång. Samma år var Sara en av sommarvärdarna i Sveriges Radios serie Sommar i P1. Programmet finns att lyssna på här. Tillsammans med artisten Jenny Wilson, har hon också gjort ett radiopro -
Joakim Palmkvist
After studies in political science at Lund University and international journalism in London, he started working on the Barometer as a reporter in the summer of 1995 .
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In 1997 he was employed at Sydsvenska Dagbladet where he is still working. In 2015 and 2016 Palmkvist worked with the radio program I Lagens Naam for Sveriges Radio P1 . -
Ingvar Carlsson
Gösta Ingvar Carlsson is a Swedish politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Sweden, first from 1986 to 1991 and again from 1994 to 1996. He was leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1986 to 1996.
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Sara Engström
Sara Engström is an award-winning Swedish writer. She blends the well-known with the mystical, adjusts reality a bit and examines the result. She is interested in human ambiguity and her characters are filled to the brim with both flaws and ideals.
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Her latest book, Blodlunden, is a descent into dark secrets set in an 18th-century-inspired world. The ruler of the realm grafts beating hearts into ancient trees in order to control the people they once belonged to. And that’s not even the worst of it. -
Set Mattsson
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Set Mattsson är utbildad sjuksköterska och journalist. Under lång tid närde han en dröm om skrivandet, och 2010 sökte han sig till Författarskolan i Lund. Här kunde skrivandet ta fart på allvar, och Set skrev entusiastiskt på en kriminalhistoria som utspelade sig i 40-talets Malmö. Passionen för historia fick också äntligen sitt utlopp.
Malmöskildringen blev Set Mattssons slutmanus på utbildningen, och när den var klar gick han raka vägen till Historiska Media för att testa sina chanser att bli utgiven. Redan några sidor in i manuset förstod vår förläggare att detta var något alldeles särskilt. Vilken historisk tonträff! Vilka karaktärsskildringar! Och vilken spännande story!
2012 utkom debutromanen Ondskans pris, som mottog mycket fina recen -
Paula Lichtarowicz
Paula Lichtarowicz was born in Cheshire and studied English literature at Durham University and psychology at the University of London. When not writing, she makes television documentaries. She lives in London. THE FIRST BOOK OF CALAMITY LEEK is her debut.
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Kenneth Hermele
Kenneth Zwi Hermele (1948-2025) var en svensk författare, ekonom och humanekolog.
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Hermeles bok En shtetl i Stockholm (2018) var nominerad till Augustpriset. -
Anna Kåver
Anna Kåver är leg. psykolog, leg. psykoterapeut och författare till flera böcker, bland annat till Att leva ett liv, inte vinna ett krig.
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Helle Stangerup
Gravskrift for Rødhætte (1967)
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Gule handsker (1968)
Spejldans (1969)
Diamanter er dydens løn (1970)
Solsikkerne (1972)
Ulvetid (1980)
Christine (1985)
Spardame (1989)
Sankt Markus nat (1992)
Stedfar (1995)
Tidens bord (2001)
Skæbnegalleriet (2006)
En forskers død (2010)
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Christina Wahldén
Christina Wahldén är född 1965 och har skrivit ett trettiotal böcker, de flesta barn- och ungdomsböcker men även tre deckare och en faktabok. 2010 fick hon Teskedsordens litteraturpris för I gryningen tror jag att mamma ska väcka mig och 2013 fick hon Fadimepriset för sitt långvariga arbete för unga som utsätts för hedersrelaterat förtryck.
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Hon har studerat dramaturgi i Australien ett år och har seglat i the Whitsundays, i samma farvatten som Cooks skepp Endeavour. Under arbetet med Den som jag trodde skulle göra mig lycklig besökte hon Cooktown i norra Australien, den plats där fartyget med besättning var strandade i nära två månader för reparationer efter att ha grundstött på Stora barriärrevet.
Hon är bosatt i Uppsala, där hon ofta besökt