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.
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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Stephen Chbosky grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Southern California's Filmic Writing Program. His first film, The Four Corners of Nowhere, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win Best Narrative Feature honors at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
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He is the recipient of the Abraham Polonsky Screenwriting Award for his screenplay Everything Divided as well as a participant in the Sundance Institute's filmmakers' lab for his current project, Fingernails and Smooth Skin. Chbosky lives in New York.
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Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Southern California's Filmic Writing Program. His first film, The Four Corners of Nowhere, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win Best Narrative Feature honors at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
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He is the recipient of the Abraham Polonsky Screenwriting Award for his screenplay Everything Divided as well as a participant in the Sundance Institute's filmmakers' lab for his current project, Fingernails and Smooth Skin. Chbosky lives in New York.
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Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Southern California's Filmic Writing Program. His first film, The Four Corners of Nowhere, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win Best Narrative Feature honors at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
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He is the recipient of the Abraham Polonsky Screenwriting Award for his screenplay Everything Divided as well as a participant in the Sundance Institute's filmmakers' lab for his current project, Fingernails and Smooth Skin. Chbosky lives in New York.
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Gregory David Roberts
Gregory David Roberts (GDR) is an Australian artist, composer, songwriter, and author of Shantaram, its sequel, The Mountain Shadow, and The Spiritual Path.
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Following the breakdown of his marriage and the loss of custody of his daughter, he turned to heroin to numb the pain, and crime to feed his habit. In 1978, Roberts was sentenced to 19 years in prison for armed robbery (with a plastic weapon), he escaped and spent eight years in Bombay as a fugitive. Here he established a free medical clinic for slum-dwellers and worked as a counterfeiter and smuggler for a branch of the South Bombay mafia.
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Drew Linsalata
Drew is the creator and host of The Anxious Truth, a slightly unorthodox anxiety podcast that’s been in full swing since 2014 with over 2,000,000 downloads (and growing). The Anxious Truth podcast and the community surrounding it are recognized sources for anxiety education, support, inspiration, encouragement, and empowerment.
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In 2020, Drew published two books on anxiety and anxiety recovery. The Anxious Truth and An Anxiety Story have quickly become required reading for anyone suffering with anxiety and in need of education, instruction, inspiration, encouragement and empowerment.
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Jerker Eriksson
Jerker Eriksson was born in Gävle in 1974. Among many other jobs, he has been the producer of Håkan's electro punk band i love you baby! and has toured with the band in many countries in Eastern Europe. He has also worked as a caretaker, loader, warehouse manager and prison librarian. He currently lives in Stockholm with his wife Sara.
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Sara Kadefors
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Marit Kapla
Marit Kapla, född 4 september är en svensk kulturjournalist och författare. 2019 tilldelades hon Augustpriset i den skönlitterära klassen för sin debutbok Osebol.
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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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Traci Lords
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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.
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Carl-Johan Vallgren
He is the author of eight novels, of which The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot is the first novel to be translated into English. His novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. He lives in Stockholm.
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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. -
Mats Strandberg
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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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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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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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Annika Norlin
Stacken är Annika Norlins första roman. Novellsamlingen Jag ser allt du gör (2020) nominerades till Augustpriset, Borås Tidnings debutantpris, Norrlands litteraturpris och Katapultpriset för årets bästa skönlitterära debut.
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Annika Norlin är också låtskrivare och artist, som släpper musik under eget namn, samt i projekten Säkert! och Hello Saferide. -
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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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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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. -
Jonathan Lundberg
Journalist och författare av Sverigevänner (2019), Från världskrig till nätkrig (2021), Cicada 3301 (2025).
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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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Karin Boye
Karin Boye was a Swedish poet and novelist.
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She is perhaps most famous for her poems, of which the most well-known ought to be "Yes, of course it hurts" (Swedish: "Ja visst gör det ont") and "In motion" (Swedish: "I rörelse"). She also wrote a few novels including "Kallocain". Inspired by the rise of National Socialism in Germany, it was a portrayal of a dystopian society in the vein of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World (though written almost a decade before Nineteen Eighty-Four). In the novel, an idealistic scientist named Leo Kall invents Kallocain, a kind of truth serum.
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Erik Axl Sund
Erik Axl Sund is the pen name of Swedish author duo Jerker Eriksson (b. 1974) and Håkan Axlander Sundquist (b. 1965). Håkan is a sound engineer, musician and artist. Jerker has been the producer of Håkan's electro punk band iloveyoubaby! and currently works as a librarian in a prison. Erik Axl Sund is the author of three novels so far: Crow Girl (2010), Hunger Fire (2011) and Pythia's Instructions (2012). Together, they form the trilogy about Victoria Bergman. These dark and addictive novels became an immediate success, both critical and commercial. The Victoria Bergman trilogy is the latest literary phenomenon in Swedish crime fiction and a milestone in contemporary crime fiction in general.
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Richard Milward
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Michael Avallone
Also wrote Nick Carter: Killmaster series under Nick Carter alias with others
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Michael Angelo Avallone was a prolific American author of mystery and secret agent fiction, and novelizations based on TV and films. He claimed a lifetime output over 1,000 works, including novels, short stories, articles, published under his own name or 17+ pseudonyms.
His first novel, The Tall Dolores 1953 introduced Ed Noon PI. After three dozen more, the most recent was 1989. The final volume, "Since Noon Yesterday" is, as of 2005, unpublished.
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Simone Buchholz
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David Safier
David Safier is a German writer and novelist. He wrote the television series Berlin, Berlin for which he was awarded the Adolf Grimme Award in 2003. Berlin, Berlin also won an International Emmy Award for best comedy in 2004. He has written four novels, Mieses Karma and Jesus liebt mich, which together sold two million copies, Plötzlich Shakespeare and Happy Family.
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Bodil Malmsten
Bodil Malmsten (born 19 August 1944 in Bjärme, Jämtland) was a Swedish poet and novelist. She was born close to Östersund in Jämtland, Sweden and grew up at her grandparents.
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The English translation of her novel, Priset på vatten i Finistère (The Price of Water in Finistère, translated by Frank Perry), was selected as a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. In the novel, having decided to pack up and leave her country of birth, she recounts the story her settling into her new home in the Finistère département, in the northwest of France. It is told in a series of vignettes about gardening, learning the language, dealing with French bureaucracy, and struggling with writer's block.
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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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Sara Bergmark Elfgren
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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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Mats Strandberg
Mats Strandberg is an award-winning novelist and journalist. He is a regular columnist for Sweden's biggest evening newspaper, has been named Columnist of the Year by Sweden's Newspapers and Magazines organization, and had published three previous novels, with rights sold in numerous countries.
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Cherie Priest
Cherie Priest is the author of about thirty books and novellas, most recently the modern gothics It Was Her House First, The Drowning House, and Cinderwich. She's also the author of the Booking Agents mysteries, horror projects The Toll and The Family Plot – and the hit YA graphic novel mash-ups I Am Princess X and its follow up, The Agony House. But she is perhaps best known for the steampunk pulp adventures of the Clockwork Century, beginning with Boneshaker. She has been nominated for the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, and the Locus award – which she won with Boneshaker.
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Frédéric Dard
Frédéric Dard (né Frédéric Charles Antoine Dard le 29 juin 1921 à Jallieu (Isère), France - 6 juin 2000 à Bonnefontaine, Fribourg, Suisse) était un écrivain principalement connu – dans une production extrêmement abondante – pour les aventures du commissaire San-Antonio, souvent aidé de son adjoint Bérurier, dont il a écrit cent soixante-quinze aventures depuis 1949. Parallèlement aux "San-Antonio" (l'un des plus gros succès de l'édition française d'après-guerre), Frédéric Dard a produit sous son nom ou sous de nombreux pseudonymes des romans noirs, des ouvrages de suspense psychologique, des « grands romans » des nouvelles, ainsi qu'une multitude d'articles. Débordant d'activité, il fut également auteur dramatique, scénariste et dialoguiste
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Magnus Uggla
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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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Ulf Nilsson
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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 -
Malin Lindroth
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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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Deirdre Madden
Deirdre Madden is from Toomebridge, County Antrim in Northern Ireland. She was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and at the University of East Anglia. In 1994 she was Writer-in-Residence at University College, Cork and in 1997 was Writer Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. She has travelled widely in Europe and has spent extended periods of time in both France and Italy.
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Mark Lanegan
Mark Lanegan (born November 25, 1964 in Ellensburg, Washington) was an American rock musician and songwriter. Lanegan began his music career in the 1980s. In 1985, he became the vocalist for grunge group Screaming Trees; the group broke up in 2000. Lanegan would start a low-key solo career, but in 2004 Lanegan released his big breakthrough album Bubblegum. In addition to leading the The Gutter Twins, Lanegan has also been involved in other musical projects, including hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age, longterm collaborations with Isobel Campbell; and undertaken some surprisingly eclectic collaborations, such as co-writing and providing vocals for "Black River" by the electronic outfit, Bomb the Bass. He also lent his vocal talent to th
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Peter Stenson
I’m the author of FIEND (Random House), THIRTY-SEVEN (Dzanc), THE SEXUAL LIVES OF SUBURBANITES (Jackleg Press), and WE, ADULTS (forthcoming from Regal House Publishers). I have over thirty essays and stories published in magazines such as The Sun, The Bellevue Literary Review, The Greensboro Review, and The Southeast Review. I teach creative writing and composition at Colorado State University.
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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 -
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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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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Whiskey Leavins
Whiskey Leavins has lived a nomadic life. For him, the simple question, “Where are you from?” is way harder to answer than it should be. He has lived in multiple cities and states north and south of the Rio Bravo -- east and west of the Mississippi. But now he loves life in Santa Cruz, California after having taken up residence there seven or eight years ago. Despite possible objections from natives, he now considers himself a proud Santa Cruzian and wears Santa Cruz t-shirts damn near every day. He anticipates living in the Cruz, writing goofy stories, until he is no more. Like the devil Lucifestus, the star of his first collection of short stories, Whiskey Leavins enjoys a good dive bar, a good drink, and is an inveterate gambler.
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Merethe Lindstrøm
Merethe Lindstrøm er født i 1963 i Bergen og er oppvokst i Hammerfest, Stord og Høland. Nå bor hun i Oslo.
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Forfatteren debuterte med novellesamlingen "Sexorcisten og andre fortellinger" i 1983, og siden har hun skrevet flere novellesamlinger, romaner og en barnebok.
Karakteristisk for forfatterskapet er hennes fokus på moderne menneskers søken etter andre og etter mening. Hun har fått mye oppmerksomhet for novellesamlingen "Svømme under vann" (1994) og romanene "Steinsamlere" (1996) og "Stedfortrederen" (1997). For novellesamlingen "Gjestene" (2007) var hun innstilt til Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris 2008 og nominert til Kritikerprisen for beste voksenbok 2007. Hun er tildelt Dobloug-prisen 2008 og Amalie Skram-prisen 2012 for sitt samlede forfa -
Michael Freeman
Librarian note: There is more than one author with this name in the Goodreads database.
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Michael Freeman is a professional photographer and author. He wrote more than 100 book titles. He was born in England in 1945, took a Masters in geography at Brasenose College, Oxford University, and then worked in advertising in London for six years. He made the break from there in 1971 to travel up the Amazon with two secondhand cameras, and when Time-Life used many of the pictures extensively in the Amazon volume of their World's Wild Places series, including the cover, they encouraged him to begin a full-time photographic career.
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Hans Gunnarsson
Hans Gunnarsson (1966) was born and brought up in Finspång but now lives in Stockholm. Since the short story collection Bakom glas (Behind Glass) which was published in 1996 and won the Swedish Catapult Prize for Best Debut, Hans Gunnarsson has written a number of award-winning and critically acclaimed short story collections and novels. Hans Gunnarsson is also one of Sweden’s most established screenwriters
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Alicia Erian
Alicia Erian is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and film director.
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Elsie Johansson
Elsie Gunborg Johansson was a Swedish writer. She is sometimes considered a proletarian writer.
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Jack Thorne
Jack Thorne (born 6 December 1978) is an English screenwriter and playwright.
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Born in Bristol, England, he has written for radio, theatre and film, most notably on the TV shows Skins, Cast-offs, This Is England '86, This Is England '88, This Is England '90, The Fades, The Last Panthers and the feature film The Scouting Book for Boys. He currently lives in London. -
Per Faxneld
Per Faxneld is Swedish Historian of Religion
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he holds a ph.d. in History of Religions (obtained in 2014). his field of specialisation is Western esotericism, new religions and "alternative spirituality" (e.g. Satanism, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, New Age, the sacralization of physical excercise, etc), with a particular emphasis on how they are formed in tandem with processes of modernization (especially secularization). he has also worked from a sociological perspective with questions pertainng to strategies of legitimation, religious authority and identity formation. Other interests include religion and popular culture (reflection my background in cinema studies), folk religion (e.g. editing a critical edition of a folkloristic classic), gen -
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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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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Amy Gentry
Amy Gentry is the author of the novels Good as Gone, Last Woman Standing, and Bad Habits, as well as the 33 1/3 book about Tori Amos's Boys for Pele. Also a critic, she has reviewed for the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Review of Books, Paris Review, LitHub, and Electric Literature, as well as writing introductions for two books in the NYRB Classics line. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Chicago and lives in Austin, Texas.
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Paul Nurse
Paul Maxime Nurse is an English geneticist, former President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Leland Hartwell and Tim Hunt for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division of cells in the cell cycle.
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In addition to the Nobel Prize, Nurse has received numerous awards and honours. He was elected an EMBO Member in 1987 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1989 and the Founder Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998. In 1995, he was awarded the Pezcoller-AACR International Award. He received a Royal Medal and became a foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He receiv -
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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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Tuvalisa Rangström
Tuvalisa Rangström är dramatiker, författare och skådespelare.
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Sedan 2017 är hon adjunkterande dramaturg i det konstnärliga rådet på Drottningholms Slottsteater. Vid sidan om det arbetar hon med att skriva dramatik och operalibretton.
2017 debuterade hon som barnboksförfattare med boken Oväder tillsammans med Clara Dackenberg på Mirando bokförlag.
Tuvalisa har en bakgrund som konstvetare och intresserar sig för konst i alla former. Så även Häxkonst.
“Att se världen magiskt kräver övning. Precis som alla andra konstnärer måste den som ägnar sig åt häxkonst öva och förfina sitt hantverk. En bra häxa blir man inte bara hokus pokus. Så en handbok i häxkonst tror jag är en bra start för den som ändå vill försöka.” -
Gerald A. Browne
Gerald Austin Browne (born 1924, in Connecticut, USA) is an American author and editor.
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Browne was raised in Litchfield County, Connecticut. He attended the University of New Mexico, The Sorbonne and Columbia University, where he won several literary awards. His first novel, It's All Zoo, was written while he was living in Paris and working as a fashion photographer. His bestselling novels include 11 Harrowhouse, Green Ice, 19 Purchase Street, Stone 588, and Hot Siberian, several of which have been made into films. He lives in New York with his wife, Merle, a model and actress, as well as the co-author of a novel entitled The Ravishers. -
John Joseph
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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John Joseph McGowan (a.k.a. John Joseph) is a punk rock singer from New York City, most famous for his work with the Cro-Mags in the 1980s.
Joseph was raised in foster care and grew up on the streets of New York. He was the lead singer for the New York hardcore punk band Cro-Mags from 1984 until 1987, though he departed and rejoined the band sporadically.
Before, during, and after his time in the Cro-Mags, Joseph served as an occasional roadie for Bad Brains, and he sang background vocals on Antidote's Thou Shalt Not Kill EP. He returned to the Cro-Mags briefly in the early to mid-1990s.
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Johannes Klenell
Johannes Klenell (f. 1979) är förläggare på Galago, serieförlaget som de senaste tio åren varit ett drivhus för några av vår tids bästa samhällskritiker. Han skriver för bland annat Aftonbladet Kultur och Värmlands Folkblad.
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Michael Pye
Michael Pye (b. 1946) is a writer who reported on business for The Sunday Times of London in the 1960s and 1970s. He has also authored many books, two of which are about the entertainment industry: The Movie Brats: How the Film Generation Took Over Hollywood (with Lynda Myles, 1979), and Moguls: Inside the Business of Show Business (1980).
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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. -
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 -
Birgitta Stenberg
Birgitta Stenberg was born in Stockholm in 1932. She was educated in Visby and finally in Paris. Stenberg spent a lot of time in southern Europe improving her language skills. She became a Swedish author, translator and illustrator. Stenberg was, during the early 1950s, a part of the literary assembly Metamorfosgruppen. She wrote the script for the film Raskenstam.
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During the Cold War in the 1950s, Stenberg was named secretary of the Swedish department of the Congress for Cultural Freedom and editor for Kulturkontakt which was founded by the CIA under the cover name of Ford Foundation.
Stenbergs first novel Fritt förfall was refused by Bonnier Group in 1952 due to the novels "lack of literary quality". According to the authour herself, the pu -
Brendan Vidito
Brendan Vidito is the author of the Wonderland Award-winning collection of body horror stories, Nightmares in Ecstasy (Clash Books, 2018) and the upcoming Pornography for the End of the World (Weirdpunk Books, 2022). He also co-edited Splatterpunk Award-nominated anthology The New Flesh: A Literary Tribute to David Cronenberg (Weirdpunk Books, 2019) with Sam Richard. He lives in Ontario, surrounded by books and reptiles.
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Hassan Loo Sattarvandi
Hassan Loo Sattarvandi is a Iranian-Swedish author who grew up in Hagalund in Greater Stockholm.
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His debut Still (Style) was published in 2008 and depicts the lives of a few young working class men in Hagalund. It received the Swedish Katapultpriset i 2009 for the best debut the previous year.
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David E. Fastovsky
David E. Fastovsky is Professor of Geosciences at the University of Rhode Island. He is the author of numerous scientific publications dealing with Mesozoic vertebrate faunas and their ancient environments and is also scientific co-Editor of Geology. He has undertaken extensive fieldwork studying dinosaurs and their environments in Montana, North Dakota, Arizona, Mexico, and Mongolia.
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Mark Simpson
English author and journalist Mark Simpson is credited/blamed for ‘fathering’ the metrosexual in 1994, predicting with terrifying accuracy, that the future belonged to the male desire to be desired.
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He is the author of several critically-acclaimed books.
“SIMPSON WRITES WITH ENOUGH PANACHE TO MAKE MOST OF HIS PEERS TOSS THEIR LAPTOPS INTO THE WASTE DISPOSAL AND WEEP”
– Independent on Sunday
“THE GAY ANTI-CHRIST” – Vogue
“I ALMOST HATE TO AGREE WITH ANYTHING HE SAYS” – LRB
“AN AMUSED, DETACHED VOLTAIRE”
– Independent on Sunday
“ERUDITE, INCISIVE, SASSY… FRESH, HILARIOUS” – Publishers Weekly
“ONE OF THE BRIGHTEST WRITERS AROUND” – Time Out
“BRILLIANTLY BUCCANEERING”
– Spectator
“SERIOUSLY FUNNY”
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Johan Wanloo
Johan Wanloo (f. 1972) är en av Sveriges mest produktiva serietecknare som regelbundet publiceras i Göteborgs-Posten, Dagens Nyheter och serietidningar som Galago och Herman Hedning. Han är även poddare, barnboksillustratör och krönikör.
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Nina Gildert
Nina Gildert kommer från Vetlanda där hon arbetar som vårdadministratör. Ända sedan högstadiet har hon haft en fascination för skräckgenren, detta genom att hon tidigt upptäckte Stephen Kings böcker. Ett annat stort intresse för Nina är folktro och true crime-poddar. I mars 2020 fick hon med novellen Sömnparalys i Creepypodden och kom därefter igång med sitt skrivande på allvar vilket 2024 resulterade i boken 7 skräcknoveller innehållande sju stycken små creepypastor.
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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. -
Victor Astafiev
Виктор Астафьев
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Viktor Petrovich Astafyev also spelled Astafiev or Astaf'ev (Russian: Виктор Петрович Астафьев; 1 May 1924 – 29 November 2001), was a prominent Soviet and Russian writer. -
Björn Swendsén
Skriver och tecknar fantasy.
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Jag har skapat karaktärer, varelser och världar sedan jag var liten, oftast med en lite mörkare ton. Föredrar all typ av fiction med influenser av övernaturligt eller skräck.
Just nu (Maj 2025) så sitter jag med det slutgiltiga arbetet av del två i Ikonaserien, som fått namnet "Spegelhavet", och siktar också på att novellsamlingen "Sagor för Imia" blir utgiven före årskiftet.
Mer info finns på hemsidan, genom linktr.ee/bjornsw
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Fantasy artist and writer from Sweden.
I've created characters, creatures and worlds ever since I was little, and I pretty much only draw and write fantasy with a dark twist. (But I enjoy any kind of fiction with a supernatural or horror element.)
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Lina Makboul
Lina Makboul (f. 1973) är journalist. Hon arbetar sedan 2002 på SVT:s samhällsredaktion i Göteborg.
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Henrik Arnstad
Henrik Arnstad är en svensk journalist och TV-spelsrecensent med inriktning på historia. Han är en ofta anlitad expert i Dagens Nyheter, TV4, Svenska Dagbladet och flera andra ledande medier i Sverige. Hans expertområden är Finlands deltagande i Förintelsen samt svensk och norsk fascism. Han läser historia på grundnivå vid Stockholms universitet.
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Lene Ask
Lene Ask is a Norwegian photographer, illustrator, cartoonist and children's book author.
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Angela Cameron Page
Born in the Midlands in the late 70s, like most children, Angela Cameron Page always enjoyed making up stories, she just never grew out of it. She lives in Staffordshire with a disturbingly vivid imagination, a daily rotating stream of intrusive musical earworms and an extremely understanding husband.
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For the curious, you can follow apageaday.maybe on Facebook, Threads and Instagram, or apageaday-maybe on Bluesky, for occasional social media updates when she remembers she ought to post something. -
Ricardo Romero
Ricardo Romero was born in the province of Entre Ríos, in northern Argentina, in 1976. He studied Literature at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and has been living in Buenos Aires since 2002. Between 2003 and 2006 he directed the literary journal Oliverio and between 2006 and 2010 he was one of the members of the ‘El Quinteto de la Muerte’ (The Lethal Quintet) with which he published two books: 5 and La fiesta de la narrativa (Fiction’s Party). He has also published a book of short stories, Tantas noches como sean necesarias (As Many Nights as may be Necessary, 2006) and the novels Ninguna parte (Nowhere, 2003), El síndrome de Rasputín (Rasputin’s Syndrome, 2008), Los bailarines del fin del mundo (The Dancers of the End of the World, 20
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Karin Bojs
Karin Bojs is an author and science journalist. She was head of the science desk at Dagens Nyheter, the leading daily newspaper in Sweden, for nearly two decades. Karin has an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University, and has received several awards, including the 2015 Swedish August Prize for My European Family.
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Karin lives in Stockholm on top of a hill with a view over Lake Mälaren. She often leaves her apartment for her country house where she keeps honey bees, produces cider and maintains an orchid meadow. During the long, dark Scandinavian winter nights she enjoys dancing the tango. -
Kristine Getz
Kristine Getz (f. 1983) er fra Bærum utenfor Oslo. Hun har studert i Dublin, Irland, men er nå bosatt i Denver, Colorado. Hun er kjent for å ha blogget om spiseforstyrrelsen sin. "Hvis jeg forsvinner, ser du meg da?" (2012) er hennes første bok og er en gripende og nådeløst ærlig historie om ti år med spiseforstyrrelser.
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P.C. Jersild
Per Christian Jersild, better known as P. C. Jersild, is a Swedish author and physician. He also holds an honorary doctorate in medicine from Uppsala University, and another one in engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology.
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