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.
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.
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Christine Leunens
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Unni Lindell
Unni Maria Lindell is a Norwegian author, best known for her crime novels, who has also written a collection of poems and several children's and young adult books.
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Lindell worked as a journalist before she became an author. Her first book, Den grønne dagen ("The green day") was published in 1986. One of Lindell's most prominent characters is detective Cato Isaksen.
Lindell was awarded the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1998 and the Critics' Prize for the year's best children's or youth literature. In 1999 she received the Riverton Prize (Rivertonprisen), am annual literature award given to the best Norwegian detective story. -
Maj Sjöwall
Maj Sjöwall was a Swedish author and translator. She was best known for the collaborative work with her partner Per Wahlöö on a series of ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police detective in Stockholm. In 1971, the fourth of these books, The Laughing Policeman (a translation of Den skrattande polisen, originally published in 1968) won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Novel. They also wrote novels separately.
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Sally Beauman
aka Vanessa James
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Sally Kinsey-Miles graduated from Girton College, Cambridge (MA in English Literature) She married Christopher Beauman an economist. After graduating, she moved with her husband to the USA, where she lived for three years, first in Washington DC, then New York, and travelled extensively. She began her career as a journalist in America, joining the staff of the newly launched New York magazine, of which she became associate editor, and continued to write for it after her return to England. Interviewed Alan Howard for the Telegraph Magazine in 1970 in an article called 'A Fellow of Most Excellent Fancy'. (Daily Telegraph Supplement, May 29th.) Apparently a very long interview. The following year they met again, and the rest i -
Ida Kathrine Gravensteen
Ida Kathrine Gravensteen (f. 1988) er rettsmedisiner og forsker. Hun er lidenskapelig opptatt av å tilgjengeliggjøre medisinsk kunnskap og bidra til åpenhet om tabubelagte temaer. I mange år har hun drevet med formidling gjennom et hundretalls podcastepisoder, blant annet i radioprogrammet Abels tårn på NRK P2, gjennom aviskronikker og på sosiale medier. Hva vi levende kan lære av de døde er hennes første bok.
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Catherine Shepherd
Bestselling German author Catherine Shepherd lives with her family in the small town of Zons on the river Rhine. She originally moved to Zons to be near her place of work at a major German bank in Düsseldorf. However, the medieval atmosphere of the town and the advent of self-publishing soon combined to stir the writing spirit that had lain dormant in her for many years. She began to write again, weaving together the threads of medieval and present time. The result? A series of four crime novels set in Zons, each a mixture of an exciting thriller and a mysterious story from the Middle Ages. The first ("Der Puzzlemörder von Zons") as well as the third ("Kalter Zwilling") and fourth ("Auf den Flügeln der Angst") hit #1 on the German Kindle ch
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Kjell Ola Dahl
Born in 1958, Dahl's first novel was published in 1993. He is best known for his series about Oslo detectives Frank Frølich and Inspector Gunnarstranda.
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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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Helsinki Noir was published by Akashic Books November 2014. It is an anthology edited by Thompson and it includes one story he wrote.
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Michael Ridpath
Before becoming a writer, Michael Ridpath used to work as a bond trader in the City of London. After writing several financial thrillers, which were published in over 30 languages, he began a crime series featuring the Icelandic detective Magnus Jonson. He has also written five stand-alone thrillers, the latest of which is The Diplomat’s Wife, published in February 2021. He lives in London.
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Arne Dahl
Arne Dahl is the pen name of Jan Arnald, an internationally known Swedish crime author and literary critic.
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His writing can also be seen in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. He published Barbarer (2001) and Maria och Artur (2006) under his own name, but under his pseudonym he has written the A-gruppen (Intercrime) series, involving the A-team, a group highly trained in dealing with criminal cases in Sweden. -
Susanne Jansson
Susanne Jansson (1972) was born in Åmål, Sweden and later moved to Gothenburg to work in advertising and then to New York to study photography. After returning to Sweden, she worked as a freelance photographer while studying journalism, and spent her professional life combining her work as a photographer with being a freelance journalist focusing on reportage and profile stories in areas such as culture, film, music, and literature.
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She made her debut in 2017 with the suspense novel The Forbidden Place which was published in 24 territories around the world.
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Antti Tuomainen
Antti Tuomainen (b. 1971) is one of Finland’s most acclaimed and award-winning crime fiction writers. To date, Tuomainen’s works have been translated into more than 25 languages. Crowned “The King of Helsinki Noir,” Tuomainen’s piercing and evocative style has never stopped evolving.
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In The Man Who Died, Tuomainen displays a new side of his authorship and unveils his multifaceted ability in full. The novel, which combines Tuomainen’s trademark suspense with a darkly tinged humor, has won the hearts of readers and critics alike, and secured him the new title of King of Noir Comedy. The Man Who Died also became an international bestseller, shortlisting for the Petrona and Last Laugh Awards.
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Alexander Løken
Alexander Løken er en forfatter med bakgrunn i tegneserier og illustrasjon.
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Han debuterte i 2014 med barneboken Trollskallen, om en eventyrlig ekspedisjon i Norge i 1887, fra Kristiania til Østerdalen. En oppfølger er ventet våren 2015.
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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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P. Dieudonné
Paul Dieudonné groeide op in Nederland, maar emigreerde met zijn familie in de late jaren zestig naar Canada. Zijn geboorteland is hij echter nooit vergeten. Dankzij de boeken van Albert Cornelis Baantjer bleef hij een band met Nederland houden.
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Jarenlang had Dieudonné in Montreal een antiquariaat tot doofheid en andere gezondheidsklachten hem dwongen de zaak te verkopen. Sindsdien droomt hij ervan in de voetsporen te treden van zijn grote voorbeeld A.C. Baantjer. Paul Dieudonné concentreert zich momenteel op het schrijven van zijn tweede boek dat in de loop van 2020 zal verschijnen. -
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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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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Helene Tursten
Helene Tursten (born in Gothenburg in 1954) is a Swedish writer of crime fiction. The main character in her stories is Detective Inspector Irene Huss. Before becoming an author, Tursten worked as a nurse and then a dentist, but was forced to leave due to illness. During her illness she worked as a translator of medical articles.
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Josef Lada
Josef Lada was a Czech painter and writer.
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He is best known as the illustrator of Jaroslav Hašek's World War One novel The Good Soldier Švejk. He produced nearly 600 cartoons of the Švejk characters, depicting Austria-Hungary officers and civil servants as incompetent, abusive and often drunk.
Born in the small village of Hrusice in a cobbler's family, he went to Prague at the age of 14 to become an apprentice binder. He loved to draw and paint. Entirely self-taught, he created his own style as a caricaturist for newspapers, and later as an illustrator. He wrote and illustrated the adventures of Mikeš, a little black cat who could talk.
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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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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 -
Elinor Florence
My new historical novel Finding Flora, about women homesteaders on the prairies, was published by Simon & Schuster in April 2025.
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My debut novel Bird's Eye View, about a young woman who joins the air force in World War Two and becomes an aerial photographic interpreter, became a Canadian bestseller in 2016.
My second novel Wildwood is about a single mother from the big city who must fulfill the conditions of her inheritance by living for one year in an abandoned, off-the-grid farmhouse in northern Canada.
I grew up on a prairie farm and had a long career in journalism, writing for newspapers and magazines including Reader’s Digest. I even published my own newspaper before turning to fiction.
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Peter Römer
Peter Römer begon zijn carrière als acteur voor toneel en televisie. Daarnaast werkte hij jarenlang als televisieproducent, scenarioschrijver en regisseur. In 2012 verscheen van zijn hand Chantage, de eerste moord roman met rechercheur Hanna Vermeer. Chantage werd genomineerd voor de Schaduwprijs /Gouden Strop. Zijn tweede moordroman is getiteld Bedrog.
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Anne Elvedal
Anne Elvedal er en av landets mest ettertraktede manusforfattere innen TV og film. Hun har skrevet manus til tre Amanda-nominerte spillefilmer (Børning 2, Kutoppen og Elias og jakten på havets gull) og tv-seriene Twin og Wisting har høstet gode kritikker og blitt solgt til flere land. Anne Elvedal debuterer nå som skjønnlitterær forfatter med ungdomstrilogien Dødens spill.
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Justin Cartwright
Justin Cartwright (born 1945) is a British novelist.
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He was born in South Africa, where his father was the editor of the Rand Daily Mail newspaper, and was educated there, in the United States and at Trinity College, Oxford. Cartwright has worked in advertising and has directed documentaries, films and television commercials. He managed election broadcasts, first for the Liberal Party and then the SDP-Liberal Alliance during the 1979, 1983 and 1987 British general elections. For his work on election broadcasts, Cartwright was appointed an MBE.
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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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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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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. -
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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Sveistrup obtained a Master in Literature and in History from the University of Copenhagen and studied at the Danish Film School. He has won countless prizes, including an Emmy for Nikolaj and Julie and a BAFTA for The Killing. -
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 -
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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Jan-Erik Fjell
Jan-Erik Fjell (født 20. oktober 1982 i Fredrikstad) er en norsk forfatter og radiovert.
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Fjell debuterte i 2009 med romanen Pus,gitt ut på Fritt Forlag hvor leseren får komme på innsiden av en ung, narssistisk mann, og følger ham i en travel uke på jakt etter damer og seg selv. I 2010 kom hans første kriminalroman Tysteren, ut på Juritzen Forlag. Krimdebuten ble belønnet med Bokhandlerprisen 2010. Fjell var da den yngste forfatteren som noen gang har fått denne prisen.
Jan-Erik Fjell er en av to hovedprogramledere i radioprogrammet God kveld, med Staysman og Fjell som sendes på Radio Prime Halden.
Jan-Erik Fjell er sønn av skuespiller Jan Edgar Fjell.
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Thomas Enger
Thomas Enger was born in Oslo in 1973, but grew up in Jessheim. He has an education in journalism, and has also studied sports and history. He worked at the Norwegian online newspaper Nettavisen for nine years.
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He has composed music and written books since the age of 18. He is also working on a musical.
Enger's first book, Skinndød, was published in 2010. It is the first book in a series of at least six featuring crime journalist Henning Juul. The second installment, Fantomsmerte, was released in the fall of 2011; Blodtåke, the third book, is scheduled for a 2012 release. -
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.
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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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Jussi Adler-Olsen
Jussi Adler-Olsen is a Danish author who began to write novels in the 1990s after a comprehensive career as publisher, editor, film composer for the Valhalla cartoon and as a bookseller.
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He made his debut with the thriller “Alfabethuset” (1997), which reached bestseller status both in Denmark and internationally just like his subsequent novels “And She Thanked the Gods” (prev. “The Company Basher”) (2003) and “The Washington Decree” (2006). The first book on Department Q is “Kvinden I buret” (2007) and the second “Fasandræberne” (2008). The main detective is Deputy Superintendent Carl Morck from the Department Q and he is also the star of the third volume, “Flaskepost fra P” which was released in the fall of 2009 and secured Adler-Olsen ”Rea -
Anna Jansson
Anna Maria Angelika Jansson is a Swedish crime writer and nurse from Visby, Gotland.
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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 -
Mikaela Bley
Mikaela Bley is born 1979, she lives in Stockholm with her husband and two children. She worked as a producer for the TV4 television channel and now she is a full-time writer. She debuted with Lycke. After the incredible international success of the book, the author is working on a series starring the obstinate journalist Ellen Tamm.
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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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Caroline de Maigret
The granddaughter of Prince Michel Poniatowski, and the daughter of Count Bertrand de Maigret, Caroline studied literature at the Sorbonne before moving to New York to model. She returned to Paris in 2006 where she launched a rock music label with her partner Yarol Poupaud, set up a publishing company called Yarock Editions and most importantly, she’s the proud mother of her son Anton. De Maigret has been an ambassador for Chanel since 2012 and supports women worldwide through NGO Care.
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Katie Coyle
Katie Coyle's debut novel VIVIAN APPLE AT THE END OF THE WORLD was named one of the forty best YA novels of all time by Rolling Stone, and was followed by a sequel, VIVIAN APPLE NEEDS A MIRACLE. Her short fiction has won the Pushcart Prize, and has been featured in BEST AMERICAN NON-REQUIRED READING, One Story, The Southeast Review, and Critical Quarterly, among others. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, and blogs at katiecoyle.com.
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Jo Nesbø
Jo Nesbø is a bestselling Norwegian author and musician. He was born in Oslo and grew up in Molde. Nesbø graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in economics. Nesbø is primarily famous for his crime novels about Detective Harry Hole, but he is also the main vocals and songwriter for the Norwegian rock band Di Derre. In 2007 Nesbø also released his first children's book, Doktor Proktors Prompepulver.
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* Harry Hole
* Doktor Proktor
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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. -
Venezia Miller
Engineer by day, writer by night—that's how I would describe myself. Since childhood, I have been fascinated with how writers can create entire worlds with simple words and draw others into their stories. I remember spending my summer holidays as a teenager reading detective stories and trying to write my own tales in the style of Agatha Christie on an old typewriter (yes, I'm that old!).
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In the evenings, I would read my freshly typed pages to my younger sister, always ending on a cliffhanger to keep her longing for more. Those were precious moments. But as I got older and my schedule filled up with a job, husband, and children, there was little time left for writing. Eventually, I realized that all those stories in my head had disappeared.
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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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Agnes Lovise Matre
Agnes Lovise Matre is a Norwegian author. Her first book, a novel about bulimia, was released in 2012.
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She teaches at a junior high school, and likes to sing and play the guitar. She is also an avid soccer fan, with FK-Haugesund being the team of choice.
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Sigbjørn Mostue
Sigbjørn Mostue is a norwegian editor and author of children's books. His literary debut was in 2005, when the first book in the trilogy of Alvetegnet (which would be something like "The Sign of the Elves" in English) was published. The two following books in the series came in 2006 and 2007. These books are written in some sort of magical realism, where the story take place both in the "real world" and a parallel, fairytale-like world on "the other side", populated by magical creatures. Many of these figures can also be found in norwegian folklore.
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His books are popular among norwegian children and teenagers, but have not yet been translated to English. In 2006, the movie rights of Alvetegnet were sold to SF Norway.
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Lilja Sigurðardóttir
Lilja´s newest book, Netið ((Tangle) was published by Forlagid publishing in October 2016 and is the second book in the Reykjavík Noir Trilogy.
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Lilja started her writing career in 2008 when she sent a manuscript of a novel to a competition run by the publishing house Bjartur whose aim was to find the Icelandic Dan Brown. Lilja got a publishing deal out of the competition and in 2009 her first book, the crime novel Spor (Steps), came out, which she wrote in her spare time. Her second book, Fyrirgefning (Foregiveness) was published a year later but after that Lilja wrote mostly for theatre for the coming years. She won the Icelandic Theatre Awards for Best Play of the Year in 2014 for her staged debut Stóru börnin (Big Babies). But in 2015 she -
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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 -
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.
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Gunnar Staalesen
Gunnar Staalesen is a Norwegian writer. Staalesen has a cand.philol degree from Universitetet i Bergen and he has worked at Den Nationale Scene, the main theater in Bergen.
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Karin Fossum
Karin Fossum (née Mathisen) is a Norwegian author of crime fiction,often known there as the "Norwegian queen of crime". She lives in Oslo. Fossum was initially a poet, with her first collection published in 1974 when she was just 20. It won the Tarjei Vesaas' Debutant Prize. She is the author of the internationally successful Inspector Konrad Sejer series of crime novels, which have been translated into over 16 languages. She won the Glass key award for her novel "Don't Look Back", which also won the Riverton Prize, and she was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger in 2005 for "Calling Out For You".
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Maria Parr
Maria Parr is a writer and high-school teacher. Adventures with Waffles, her debut novel, has been translated into twenty languages and won several awards around the world. Maria Parr lives in Norway with her family.
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Bo Svernström
Lives in Stockholm and works as a full time writer.
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Previously worked as a journalist at the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet for 19 years.
Studied at University of Gothenburg. First physics and biologi, but later on literature, linguistics and philosophy. Studied as a Phd candidate in literature, but dropped out.
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Thomas Enger
Thomas Enger was born in Oslo in 1973, but grew up in Jessheim. He has an education in journalism, and has also studied sports and history. He worked at the Norwegian online newspaper Nettavisen for nine years.
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He has composed music and written books since the age of 18. He is also working on a musical.
Enger's first book, Skinndød, was published in 2010. It is the first book in a series of at least six featuring crime journalist Henning Juul. The second installment, Fantomsmerte, was released in the fall of 2011; Blodtåke, the third book, is scheduled for a 2012 release. -
Gunnar Sønsteby
Gunnar Fridtjof Thurmann Sønsteby was a member of the Norwegian resistance movement during the German occupation of Norway in World War II. He is also known for being the most highly decorated person in Norway, including being the only one to have been awarded the War Cross with three swords.
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Knut Høibraaten
Knut Høibraaten er tidligere fotballagent, nå kulepennselger og sauebonde i Samnanger.
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Født i Bergen, der hans oppvekst førte til et stort bankende hjerte for fotballklubben Brann og en altoppslukende interesse for sporten fotball. -
Aslak Nore
Aslak Nore (b. 1978) grew up in Oslo. He was educated at the University of Oslo and the New School for Social Research in New York and has served in Norway’s elite Telemark Battalion in Bosnia. A modern-day adventurer, Nore has lived in Latin America and worked as a journalist in the Middle East and Afghanistan. He has published several non-fiction books and four novels. Wolfsangel (2017) was a national bestseller and won the Riverton Prize for best crime novel in Norway in 2018. The Cemetery of the Sea (2021) is the first novel in an epic literary thriller series and a huge international success and bestseller. Nore lives in Provence, France.
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Rosanna Ley
Rosanna Ley has worked as a creative writing tutor for over 15 years. Affiliated to several colleges and universities in England, she also runs her own writing courses in the UK and abroad. She has worked with community groups in therapeutic settings and completed an MA in creative writing for personal development in order to support this. Her writing holidays and retreats take place in stunning locations in Italy and Spain and whilst not teaching or writing she mentors and appraises the work of new writers. Rosanna has had numerous articles and short stories published in UK magazines, and 12 novels of contemporary fiction published in the U.K, Germany, Greece and the U.S.A under a pseudonym. Her books are inspired by the culture and landsc
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Annette Dragland
Annette Borge Dragland er lege og skaperen bak Norges største helsepodcast: «Leger om livet». Med varme, nysgjerrighet og faglig tyngde formidler hun kunnskap om kropp, sinn og helse – gjort tilgjengelig for alle som ønsker å forstå mer om seg selv og kanskje leve litt bedre.
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Tracy Rees
Tracy Rees is a Cambridge graduate with a degree in Modern and Medieval Languages. After an eight-year career in nonfiction publishing, she worked as a counselor for people with cancer and their families. Amy Snow is her first novel. She lives in Swansea, Wales.
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Kyriakos Athanasiadis
Ο Κυριάκος Αθανασιάδης είναι συγγραφέας. Γεννήθηκε στη Θεσσαλονίκη το 1963. Έχει εκδώσει πάνω από 50 βιβλία, για μεγάλους και παιδιά, με το όνομά του και με μία σειρά ψευδώνυμα.
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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. -
James Quinn
Librarian Note: There are more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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James 2^ Quinn: GR author, fiction
James 3^ Quinn: GR author, fantasy, sci-fi
James 4^ Quinn: GR author, thriller
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J.M.G. Le Clézio
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, better known as J.M.G. Le Clézio (born 13 April 1940) is a Franco-Mauriciano novelist. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal (The Interrogation) and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Fredrik P. Winter
Fredrik Persson Winter, writing as Fredrik P Winter, was born in Trollhättan and now lives in Gothenburg on the west coast in Sweden.
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Fredrik P Winter writes psychological thrillers, many set in the publishing industry. In 2020 his thriller The Badger was released in Sweden to high praise from the readers and thereafter sold to several foreign markets.
He has also previously published youth novels in Swedish under the pen name Fredrik Persson.
When he is not writing he works as an acclaimed lawyer specializing in intellectual property rights. Aside from his passion for writing he enjoys the usual things such as spending time with family and friends, movies, traveling and reading. He is also a hobby pilot, mainly flying gliders, and of course h -
Lars Mæhle
Lars Mæhle (født 1971 på Sunndalsøra) er en norsk forfatter og barnebokforfatter. Han har hovedfagseksamen i litteratur og arbeider som forlagsredaktør. Han debuterte med boka Keeperen til Tunisia i 2002.
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Hans Rosenfeldt
HANS ROSENFELDT was born in 1964 in Borås. He worked as a sea lion keeper, a driver, a teacher and an actor until 1992 when he began writing for television. He has written screenplays for approximately twenty drama series and has hosted both radio and television shows. He loves to write, play videogames and spend time with his wife and three children.
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Jan-Erik Fjell
Jan-Erik Fjell (født 20. oktober 1982 i Fredrikstad) er en norsk forfatter og radiovert.
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Fjell debuterte i 2009 med romanen Pus,gitt ut på Fritt Forlag hvor leseren får komme på innsiden av en ung, narssistisk mann, og følger ham i en travel uke på jakt etter damer og seg selv. I 2010 kom hans første kriminalroman Tysteren, ut på Juritzen Forlag. Krimdebuten ble belønnet med Bokhandlerprisen 2010. Fjell var da den yngste forfatteren som noen gang har fått denne prisen.
Jan-Erik Fjell er en av to hovedprogramledere i radioprogrammet God kveld, med Staysman og Fjell som sendes på Radio Prime Halden.
Jan-Erik Fjell er sønn av skuespiller Jan Edgar Fjell.
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Peter Mercurio
Peter Mercurio is a dad, husband, and author. He enjoys hiking and exploring the National Parks, cycling, kayaking, and tossing a disc, baseball, or football with his son. Peter has played on the same softball team for over 25 years. He lives in New York City with his husband Danny.
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Hilary Boyd
Boyd was born and spent the first six months of her life in Prestatyn, North Wales, where her father, an army major, was stationed after the war. She was later educated in London, then at the boarding school Roedean. She trained as a nurse at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, and subsequently as a marriage guidance counsellor with Relate before reading English Literature at London University in her late 30s.
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After college, Boyd became a health journalist, writing about depression, step-parenting and pregnancy. She began writing fiction as a hobby whilst raising three children and working at various day jobs including running a cancer charity, Survive Cancer, working for an engineering company, and an online vitamin site. -
Eppu Nuotio
EN: Eppu Nuotio (real name Eija-Riitta Nuotio, maiden name Silvennoinen) is Finnish writer and actor. She grew up in Iisalmi and graduated from Iisalmi High School in 1981. Nuotio is married to musician and director Kurt Nuotio and has three children with him. The family lives in Southwest Finland.
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Her literary work concentrates mainly to children's literature. Part of her adult literature are series Varkaus and Pii Marin.
As an actor she has worked in several TV series. She has also written columns to newspapers and has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors since 2002. Nuotio has also worked as teacher of performing arts, translator, director and playwriter.
FI: Eppu Nuotio (oikealta nimeltään Eija-Riitta Nuotio o.s. Silvennoinen) on suomalainen -
Suzy Aspley
South Shields born author Suzy Aspley began writing her first book after a prompt at a writing retreat in the Scottish Highlands, secrets rattling in a matchbox, reminded her of a story she once covered as a newspaper reporter.
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After pitching successfully at Dragon’s Pen in summer 2019, where all four panellists wanted to see her manuscript, she won Bloody Scotland’s Pitch Perfect competition in September 2019 and a month later was shortlisted in the DHH Literary Agency New Voices Award at the first Capital Crime festival in London.
In 2020 she was awarded a mentorship through Hachette's Future Bookshelf Initiative and was delighted to work with Hodder Executive Publisher Jo Dickinson on the manuscript for her debut novel into 2021. The boo -
Ingar Johnsrud
Ingar Johnsrud (b. 1974) is a renowned Norwegian journalist. Johnsrud made his literary debut in 2015 with the thriller Those Who Follow, the first installment in a planned trilogy. He has received massive attention for his sharp eye for detail, rich and innovative plotting, and confident prose. Praised by critics as a writer who will keep readers on the edge of their seats, Johnsrud has positioned himself as one of the rising stars on the Scandinavian crime fiction scene. Ingar Johnsrud lives with his wife and three children in Oslo.
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Jean-Bernard Pouy
Jean-Bernard Pouy, né le 2 janvier 1946 à Paris, est un écrivain libertaire français de roman noir et un directeur de collections littéraires.
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Jason Dean
Jason Dean was born in South London. He spent many years as a graphic designer before turning his talent to writing the kind of pacy thrillers he's always loved reading. He has had four novels published, each featuring his series protagonist, James Bishop. He lives in Thailand with his wife and their dog, and is currently working on the first book in a new thriller series featuring an entirely different kind of hero.
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A.A. Abbott
Who doesn’t love a page-turner packed with mystery, twists and suspense? Those are the books I yearn to read, and I enjoy writing them, too. I’m British thriller writer A.A. Abbott – known to friends as Helen – and I believe a good read is one of life’s greatest pleasures. As a city girl, I've lived and worked in London, Bristol and Birmingham, so it’s no surprise that my books are often set there.
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Like 10% of us, many of my family are dyslexic. While I'm not, I want my books to be enjoyed by readers with dyslexia and visual impairment too. That's why I publish my thrillers in a LARGE PRINT dyslexia-friendly edition as well as the standard paperback and ebook versions. Don't forget, when you’re reading an ebook, you can adjust the font on yo -
Gerry Adams
Gerard "Gerry" Adams, MLA, MP (Irish: Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh; born 6 October 1948) is an Irish republican politician and abstentionist Westminster Member of Parliament for Belfast West. He is the president of Sinn Féin, the political party at the top of the latest North of Ireland election polls amidst a three-way split in the traditionally dominant unionist vote. Sinn Féin is the second largest party in the Northern Assembly.
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From the late 1980s onwards, Adams has been an important figure in Ireland's peace process, initially following contact by the then Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader John Hume and subsequently with the Irish and British governments and then other parties. In 2005, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) -
Irene Adler
È il personaggio letterario di un racconto di Sir Arthur Conan Doyle su Sherlock Holmes. Di lei si dice avesse «il viso più bello fra le donne, e la mente del più deciso degli uomini». Dietro questo pseudonimo si nasconde Alessandro Gatti.
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Constance Beresford-Howe
Constance Beresford-Howe was born in Montreal. She received her M.A. from McGill University in 1946 and her Ph.D. from Brown University in 1950. She taught English literature and creative writing at McGill until 1969, then moved to Toronto, Ontario where she taught at Ryerson until her retirement in 1988. Her first novel, The Unreasoning Heart, was published while she was still a student.
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Ms Beresford-Howe died in a hospice in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk England, on Jan. 20, 2016 at the age of 93. -
Olivier Truc
Olivier Truc was born in France in 1964. He has worked as a journalist since 1986, and is based in Stockholm since 1994, where he is currently the Nordic and Baltic correspondent for Le Monde and Le Point. As a reporter, Olivier Truc covers subjects from politics and economics to social issues like immigration and minorities. He has also produced TV documentaries, including one that portrays a group of Norwegian policemen in Lapland ("The Reindeer Police," 2008). He has previously published two non-fiction books. Forty Days Without Shadow is his first novel, and will be published in the original French by Éditions Métailié in September 2012.
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Reidar Müller
Reidar Müller har en doktorgrad i geologi fra universitetet i Oslo. Han er også utdannet journalist og har jobbet i Aftenposten. Han arbeider i dag som geolog i det private næringsliv.
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Matti Rönkä
Matti Rönkä is a Finnish TV-journalist and novelist. He received the Glass Key award in 2007 for the crime novel Ystävät kaukana and the Deutscher Krimipreis third prize in 2008 for the German translation of his novel Tappajan näköinen mies (2002) (German: Der Grenzgänger). He has been the anchor of the daily news program 8:30 National Report since 2003 on YLE, thus inheriting the nickname "Suomen ääni" (English: "The Voice of Finland") from the program's old host Arvi Lind.
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Yahaya Baruwa
Among the authors of Toronto's literary landscape is 29-year old York University Psychology graduate, Yahaya Baruwa.
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Having chosen a not-so-common path as a creative entrepreneur, he pinpointed his passion and talent at 21 years old.
As a successful writer, Baruwa has found a direct expression of his skills and interests in business and inspirational storytelling. This passion and talent led to his first literary offering, the novel titled, Struggles of a Dreamer: the Battle between a Dream and Tradition. www.StrugglesofaDreamer.com
One of eight children of immigrant parents from Kano, Nigeria, this is his first of three novels, (the second and third novels are due for release in 2015), through Tapestry House Publishing (a business which he -
Anders Nordstad
Anders Nordstad er siviløkonom, tidligere generalsekretær i Norsk bonde- og småbrukarlag og en ettertraktet foredragsholder. Han har jobbet med kornhandel i Norge og Tyskland og soyainnkjøp fra Brasil.
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Gaute Heivoll
Gaute Heivoll studied creative writing at Boe from 2001-2, and has studied law at the University of Oslo and psychology at the University of Bergen. He has also worked as a teacher. Heivoll has written poems, short stories and essays for newspapers and literary magazines and has been included in many anthologies. He has also conducted courses in creative writing in Norway and France and has worked as a literary critic in Norwegian newspapers. He made his literary debut in 2002 with the poetry collection Liten dansende gutt. His novels include Omars siste dager [Omar's Last Days] (2003) and Ungdomssangen [Song of Youth] (2005). His most recent book is the short-story collection Doktor Gordeau. Heivoll was the recipient of the 2003 Tiden-pris
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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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Gerard Aalders
Aalders voltooide twee studies aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam (geschiedenis en scandinavistiek) en promoveerde in 1989 op Swedish neutrality and the Cold War, waarin hij beschrijft waarom Zweden zich – in tegenstelling tot zijn Scandinavische buurlanden – niet bij de NAVO aansloot.
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Hij werkte van 1993 tot 2011 als onderzoeker bij het Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (NIOD). Hij schreef in die tijd een trilogie over de nazi-roof op Nederland (Roof, Berooid en Eksters), en verder boeken en artikelen over inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten, geheime economische collaboratie, de Bilderbergconferenties, kartels, Koude Oorlog, WikiLeaks en enkele monografieën over Prins Bernhard. Aalders staat bekend als een fervent criticus van d -
Selma Lønning Aarø
Selma Lønning Aarø (f. 1972) kommer fra Stord, men bor nå i Fredrikstad. Hun debuterte i allerede i 1995 med Den endelige historien, som var vinner av Cappelens konkurranse for beste debutroman. Aarø har utgitt en rekke bøker i ulike sjangere, og har skrevet både for voksne og barn. Hun har også redigert tre årganger av Cappelens debutantantologi Signaler – alle med Nils-Øivind Haagensen som medredaktør.
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Vill ni åka mera? (2003), har blitt betegnet som Aarøs gjennombrudd. Med denne romanen ble hun også nominert til Brageprisen.
Barnebøkene om tøffe Milla (Milla bestemmer, 2016, Milla leter etter gull, 2019 og Milla redder Amazonas, 2021), alle illustrert av Tiril Valeur, er blitt favoritter både for ferske lesere og som høytlesningsbøker.
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Iluta Dzene
Iluta Dzene (daudziem pazīstama arī kā Iluta Plotņikova) ir latviešu autore, kuras pirmā grāmata jauniešiem fantāzijas žanra "Salas Rēgs" tika prēmēta Zvaigznes ABC romānu konkursā.
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Autores otrais darbs guva atzinību Zvaigznes ABC rīkotajā detektīvu un romantisko romānu konkursā. -
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Andreas Viestad
Andreas Viestad (1973) er en internasjonalt kjent matformidler, kokebokforfatter, skribent og programleder.
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Andreas er kjent for sin gode penn og evne til å engasjere og forklare, enten det er dyrking, eksotiske mattradisjoner eller vitenskap. Som suksessrik kokebokforfatter står han bak utgivelser som Bordet fanger (1999), Hvordan koke vann (2005), Smak av krydder (2007), Ekte mat (2011), På grillen (2012), Noe godt hver dag (2013), Julemat (2014), Den store kjøttkokeboka (2015), 90 retter du må kunne (2019) og Gårdsmat fra hjertet av Norge (2020).
Han har gitt ut flere bøker i USA, vært spaltist i Washington Post og programleder for TV-serien New Scandinavian Cooking, som vises i over 50 land. Han er initiativtaker til og faglig leder ved G -
Sue Clark
In a varied writing career, Sue Clark has penned BBC radio and TV comedy scripts for the likes of David Jason, Lenny Henry and Tracey Ullman, as well as contributing to newspapers, magazines, trade journals and guidebooks, as a journalist, copywriter, PR and editor.
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But she had never done what she had always longed to do: write comic fiction.
That is, until she was able to give up the old nine-to-five, take a creative writing course with Oxford University, join a writing group and – at last! – unshackle her Imagination and let her love for comedy roam free.
She brings this comic touch to her short story, On The Brushes, in this exciting new anthology, Taking Liberties.
Her debut comic fiction, Note to Boy, was published in 2020, gaining a Pe