Yrsa Sigurdardottir
AKA: Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic writer, of both crime-novels and children's fiction. She has been writing since 1998.
Her début crime-novel "Last Rituals" published in the US in 2007, and the UK in January 2008 was translated into English by Bernard Scudder, and is book 1 of the Thóra Gudmundsdóttir series.
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir graduated from high-school in 1983, finished a B.Sc. in civil engineering from the University of Iceland in 1988 and M.Sc in the same field from Concordia University in Montreal in 1997.
Yrsa now works as a civil engineer for the company Fjarhitun, as well as being a writer.
In 2000 the Icelandic department of IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) awarded Yrsa for her book Við
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C.S. Graham
C.S. Graham is the pseudonym of writing team Steven Harris, a former Army Intelligence officer, and Candice Proctor, who also writes the Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series under the name C.S. Harris. The two met at a local New Orleans writers group in 2001, after Candy moved to Louisiana from Australia. They now share a thriller series, a marriage and family, seven cats, and some great Hurricane Katrina stories.
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Gísli Pálsson
Gísli Pálsson is a professor of anthropology at the University of Iceland.
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Halldór Armand
Halldór Armand Ásgeirsson (f. 1986) lauk meistaraprófi í lögum við Háskóla Íslands árið 2012 og hlaut nýræktarstyrk Miðstöðvar íslenskra bókmennta fyrir handritið að fyrstu skáldsögu sinni, Vince Vaughn í skýjunum (2013). Síðan þá hafa komið út Drón (2014), Aftur og aftur (2017), Bróðir (2020) og nú síðast Mikilvægt rusl (2024). Hann hefur einnig sent frá sér esseyjusafnið Við erum bara að reyna að hafa gaman (2022). Bækur hans hafa komið út á fjölda tungumála og pistlar hans um samfélagsleg málefni njóta mikilla vinsælda.
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Halldór Armand Ásgeirsson (b.1986) is one of the young, extraordinary voices on the Icelandic literary scene. He completed a master’s degree in law at the University of Iceland in 2012 and received the Greenshots Award for -
Auður Jónsdóttir
Auður Jónsdóttir was born on March 30, 1973. She is a writer and freelance journalist and has published articles, essays and interviews in various journals and newspapers.
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Her first published work of fiction is the short story "Gifting" (Marriage), published in the literary magazine Andblær in 1997. Other short stories have appeared in magazines and collections since then. Auður's first novel, Stjórnlaus lukka (Uncontrollable Luck, 1998), was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize in the same year. Since then, she has published other novels as well as books for children and teenagers, among them a book about her grandfather, Halldór Laxness. Her novel Fólkið í kjallaranum (The People in the Basement), received the Icelandic Literature Pr -
Tryggvi Emilsson
Tryggvi Emilsson rithöfundur (1902-1993) bjó í Blesugrófinni frá 1947 til 1956. Æviminningar hans eru mikilvæg heimild um líf og baráttu verkafólks á Íslandi á tuttugustu öld en þetta eru bækurnar Fátækt fólk, Baráttan um brauðið og Fyrir sunnan. Þær komu út á árunum 1976 – 1979 og voru tvær fyrstu bækurnar tilnefndar til Bókmenntaverðlauna Norðurlandaráðs.
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Eiríkur Bergmann
Eirikur Bergmann is Professor of Politics at Bifrost University, Iceland.
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Marianne Cedervall
Marianne Elisabet Cedervall, född den 20 februari 1949 i Halla socken på Gotland, är en svensk författare, som debuterade vintern 2009. Hon arbetade som arbetsgivarkonsult på Svenska kyrkans arbetsgivarorganisation, men är nu pensionerad. Hon bor i Västerås.
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I serien om Mirjam och Hervor finns fyra delar utgivna. Debuten Svinhugg är en spänningsroman som utspelar sig på Gotland. Uppföljaren Svartvintern utspelar sig i Tornedalen, Vittangi. I den tredje boken Spinnsidan är de tillbaka på Gotland. I fjärde boken Stormsvala reser de till New York. -
Pernille Schou
Jeg er uddannet historiker og har elsket krimier siden jeg lærte at læse.
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Min yndlings krimigenre er uden tvivl hyggekrimien. Jeg kan godt lide, at den, ligesom den klassiske krimi, fokuserer på opklaringen og miljøet (og så duer jeg bare ikke til grufulde detaljer).
Derfor var det helt oplagt at kombinere mine to store kærligheder: historien og hyggekrimien.
Når jeg ikke skriver, læser jeg. Jeg er en kæmpe læsehest og selv som barn, havde jeg altid to tasker med på ferie; en til tøj/ting og den vigtige med bøgerne i. Min mor plejede at sætte begrænsninger for, hvor mange bøger jeg måtte tage med, for hvor meget regnede jeg lige med at læse... men jeg løb altid tør halvvejs og har derfor læst utallige mærkelige sommerhus- og bogskabsbøger fun -
Pavel Renčín
Mladý a talentovaný spisovatel, to je kombinace, které se jen těžko odolává, však také Pavel
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Renčín patří k nejoblíbenějším autorům české fantastické literatury. Může za to také skutečnost, že na domácí scéně působí zcela ojedinělým dojmem. Jeho tvorba se pohybuje na mlhavém rozmezí mezi městskou fantasy a magických realismem, na hony vzdálená honbě za akčními scénami s neohroženými hrdiny. Renčín si vystačí s obyčejnými lidmi, kteří v jeho sympaticky civilním podání působí reálně, ačkoli se musí vypořádat s hrozbami, jež mají k všední realitě hodně daleko.
Už románový debut Nepohádka z roku 2004 ukázal, že jde o spisovatele, jemuž je záhodno věnovat zvýšenou pozornost. Následoval útlý román Jméno korábu(2007) a po něm netradiční projekt inte -
Malene Rydahl
Malene Rydahl is born and raised in Denmark and has been based in Paris for the past nineteen years.
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She is the author of the book “ heureux comme un danois” ( as happy as a Dane) published by Grasset in April 2014. For decades Denmark has ranked at the top the world’s happiness index. Interweaving personal anecdotes and careful research, her book steers clear of any preaching and tackles the ostensible paradox of the Danish model and offers ten easy, entertaining, and thoughtful ways to be happy – or at least as happy as a Dane. The book won the prize of the most optimistic book in 2014 in France
She is currently the Director of Corporate Communications for Hyatt Hotels & resorts in Europe Africa and Middle East.
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Daniel Cole
At 33 years old, Daniel Cole has worked as a paramedic, an RSPCA officer and most recently for the RNLI, driven by an intrinsic need to save people or perhaps just a guilty conscience about the number of characters he kills off in his writing.
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He has received a three-book publishing and television deal for his debut crime series which publishers and producers describe as “pulse-racing” and “exceptional”.
Daniel currently lives in sunny Bournemouth and can usually be found down the beach when he ought to be writing book two in the Nathan Wolfe series instead.
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Christine Green
Christine Green is the author of Way to Victory. She is the author of many novels and lives in Wolverhampton.
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* Detective Inspector Connor O'Neill Mystery
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Petros Markaris
Petros Markaris (Greek: Πέτρος Μάρκαρης) was born in Istanbul to an Armenian father and a Greek mother. He is one of the most successful living Greek authors. After studying economics, Markaris went on to work as a screenplay writer. He has lived in Germany and Austria for several years and translated Goethe and Brecht into Greek. International fame came through his series of crime novels featuring the eccentric Athenian detective Kostas Haritos, of which there are now five. Markaris lives in Athens and also co-writes film scripts with Theo Angelopoulos.
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John Franklin Bardin
John Franklin Bardin was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 30, 1916. During his teens, he lost nearly all his immediate family to various ailments. As he approached thirty, he moved to New York City where during his adulthood he was an executive of an advertising agency, published ten novels and taught creative writing as well as advertising at the NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH.
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In 1946, Bardin entered a period of intense creativity during which he wrote three crime novels that were relatively unsuccessful at first, one of them not even being published in America until the late 1960s, but which have since become well-regarded cult novels. His best-regarded works, The Deadly Percheron, The Last of Philip Banter and Devil Take the Blue-Tai -
David Hosp
David Hosp is a trial lawyer who spends a portion of his time working pro bono on behalf of wrongly convicted individuals. He lives with his wife and family in Boston.
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Lola Llatas
Lola estudió Ingeniería de Caminos y aunque hubo quién pensó que la vida técnica acabaría con su creatividad, no ha hecho más que insuflarle experiencias mágicas dándole la oportunidad de trabajar y vivir en lugares maravillosos, grandes ciudades y extensos desiertos.
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Comenzó a escribir cuando nació su hijo pequeño. Decidió que si quería educar a sus niños en la búsqueda de la libertad y la pasión, debía ser ejemplo de ello y solo haría aquello que la apasionara. -
Nína Björk Jónsdóttir
Nína Björk Jónsdóttir is an Icelandic diplomat, as well as a former tour guide and TV, newspaper and radio journalist. Born and bred in Iceland, Nína Björk has spent a quarter of her life abroad, studying and working in various countries in Europe.
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She is the author of a book for children and young adults on Icelandic heroines throughout history, Íslandsdætur, published by Salka in 2020. Her English translation of the book, Daughters of Iceland, came out 2 years later, also published by Salka.
Nína Björk co-wrote How to Live Icelandic, with her childhood friend Edda Magnus, published in 2021 by Quarto. The book has since been translated and published in 2022 Dutch, Czech, Hungarian and Slovak.
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Adele Griffin
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Adele Griffin is the author of over thirty highly-acclaimed books across a variety of genres, including Sons of Liberty and Where I Want to Be, both National Book Award Finalists.
Her debut adult novel The Favor explores themes of friendship, surrogacy, and nontraditional family building.
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Gerður Kristný
Gerður Kristný graduated in French and comparative literature from the University of Iceland in 1992. Her B.A. dissertation was on Baudelaire's Les fleurs du mal. After a course in media studies at the University of Iceland from 1992-1993 she trained at Danish Radio TV. She was editor of the magazine Mannlíf from 1998 - 2004, but is now a full time writer.
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Awards for her work include 1st prize in the National Broadcasting Service short story competition 1986, 1st prize in a TV culture programme poetry competition 1992, the Children's Choice Book Prize in 2003 for her book Marta Smarta, the Halldór Laxness Literary Award in 2004, for her novel Bátur með segli og allt (A Boat With a Sail and All) and the Icelandic Journalist's Award for Myndin -
Elizabeth Kay
Elizabeth Kay started her career as an assistant at Penguin Random House. She is now a senior commissioning editor there and is simultaneously pursuing her passion for writing.
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She won first prize - in a short story competition judged by Jacqueline Wilson - aged eight, and has been writing ever since. She lives in London and has a first-class degree in English literature. -
Lajos Zilahy
Lajos Zilahy was a Hungarian novelist and playwright. Born in Nagyszalonta (called Salonta in Romania) in Transylvania, then part of the Kingdom of Hungary, an entity of Austria-Hungary, he studied law at the University of Budapest before serving in the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War, in which he was wounded on the Eastern Front - an experience which later informed his bestselling novel Two Prisoners (Két fogoly).
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He was also active in film. His 1928 novel Something Is Drifting on the Water (Valamit visz a víz) was filmed twice. His play The General was filmed as The Virtuous Sin in 1930 and The Rebel in 1931.
Edited Híd (The Bridge) 1940-1944, an art periodical. Opposed both fascism and communism. In 1939 he established a f -
E.O. Chirovici
Also writes under Eugen O. Chirovici and Eugen Ovidiu Chirovici.
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Eugen O. Chirovici had a career in mass-media, running a national daily newspaper and then a TV news channel. He has published over 1,000 articles in Romania and abroad. He currently holds three honorary doctorates (in Economics, Communication & History) and is a member of the Romanian Academy of Science. He is the recipient of several prizes for journalism. He lives in both the UK and New York City. -
Böðvar Guðmundsson
Böðvar Guðmundsson was born on the farm Kirkjuból in Hvítársíða, West Iceland on January 9, 1939. After finishing his secondary education in Reykjavík, he studied Icelandic at the University of Iceland and received a Cand. Mag. degree in 1969. He studied further in Germany from 1964 – 1965 and in France 1972 – 1973. Böðvar was a teacher at Réttarholtsskóli in Reykjavík 1962 – 1963, and later taught at Christians Albrechts Universität in Kiel, the secondary school Menntaskólinn við Hamrahlíð in Reykjavík 1969 - 1974, the University of Iceland 1970 – 1972 and the secondary school Menntaskólinn á Akureyri 1974 - 1980. He was a sessional teacher at the Drama Academy of Iceland 1981 – 1983 and held the post of Icelandic guest lecturer at the Uni
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Jón Atli Jónasson
Jon Atli Jonasson has won the Icelandic drama prize (Griman) numerous times, as well as the Icelandic Film Prize for best script. His plays have been performed worldwide. He’s written several films, most notably The Deep, based on his own play, shortlisted for The 85th Academy Awards for best foreign feature 2015 and been nominated for The Nordic Film Prize on three occasions.
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He has written two novels, a short story compilation and a novella. He co-wrote the first season of the TV series Arctic Circle (Ivalo) in 2017 which was produced by Yellow film in Finland, Bavaria Films in Germany and distributed by Lagardère Studios France. He has various crime series projects in different stages of development with Warner Brothers TV in Germany, Tur -
Kristín Björg Sigurvinsdóttir
Kristín Björg Sigurvinsdóttir útskrifaðist sem lögfræðingur frá Háskóla Íslands árið 2018 en ákvað svo að elta drauminn um að skrifa bækur. Dóttir hafsins var hennar fyrsta skáldsaga og var hún tilnefnd til Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunanna árið 2020. Bronsharpan er önnur bókin í bókaflokknum og var tilnefnd til Fjöruverðlaunanna árið 2022 ásamt því að vera valin besta barna- og ungmennabók ársins 2022 af bóksölum. Orrustan um Renóru er lokabindið í Dulstafaþríleiknum.
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Tom Bunn
After graduating from Wake Forest University in psychology, Tom entered the U.S. Air Force. Number one in his class when he got his wings in 1960, he was given his choice of assignments, and chose to fly the Air Force's first supersonic jet fighter, the F-100.
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He served from 1961 until 1965 with the 9th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany flying the F-100 and F-105. In addition to flying, he did accident investigation and developed a safety device for the F-100.
While in Germany, Captain Tom raced a Lola Mk5 Formula 3 at the Nurburgring, Zolder, Zandvordt, and Rouen. When returning to the U.S., he converted the car to SCCA Formula C specifications, and won a U.S. National Championship in 1965.
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Alex Adams
Alex Adams was born in New Zealand, raised in Greece and Australia, and currently lives in Oregon--which is a whole lot like New Zealand, minus those freaky-looking wetas. Her debut novel, White Horse (Emily Bestler Books/Atria) hits shelves April 17, 2012. Her fingers are crossed that the world won't end before then.
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Robert Standish
Pen name of Digby George Gerahty
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Digby George Gerahty (June 1898 – 6 November 1981), who wrote under the pen-names of Robert Standish, Stephen Lister, George Digby, and George Echlin, was the prolific English writer of short stories and some 80 novels. He was most productive during the 1940s and 1950s. He was also a featured contributor to the Saturday Evening Post. His novels include Elephant Walk, which was later made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor. In the semi-autobiographical Marise (1950), Gerahty (writing as "Stephen Lister") claimed that he and two publicist colleagues had covertly "invented" the Loch Ness Monster in 1933 as part of a contract to improve business for local hotels; he repeated his claim to Henry Bauer, a resear -
Marta Borruel
I was born in Pamplona, a city loved by Hemingway and who became immortal in his famous novel Fiesta.
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I have 20 years of experience as a reporter and dircom of different companies and institutions.
But, my real and true passion is writing and literature.
I have written articles, reports, interviews and editorials in many media, and I even published a guide about the best "pintxos" in Pamplona.
"Tú no tienes la culpa" (It is not your fault) is my fist novel, "¡Que paren la rotativa" (Stop the press) is my second; and "Aura Negra" (Black Aura) is, by the moment, my last one.
If you want know more about me, this is my space:
https://www.martaborruel.com/
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Stefan Malmström
Stefan Malmström was born in Hässleholm, a town in southern Sweden. In his youth, Stefan was a talented athlete, in football, ice hockey and orienteering.
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When he was 17, he was manipulated into the Church of Scientology. He ended his sports career and became a kult member. He was 25 when he managed to get off the kult and then began his university education to become a journalist at Linneaus University in Växjö.
He started his professional career as a news journalist and has worked at newspapers, radio stations and television stations. He has also been a partner in a production company and has produced, written scripts and directed children's TV productions for Sweden's Television and TV4 in Sweden. When he is not writing, he gives lecture -
Michael Kobr
Michael Kobr (* 1973 in Kempten (Allgäu)) ist ein deutscher Krimiautor.
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Bent Mejding
Bent Mejding was a Danish actor, stage director, and theatre manager. He won a Danish Film Academy Award in 1985 and 2007. He was married to actress Susse Wold.
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Ninoslav Mitrović
Ninoslav Mitrović je rođen 1976. godine.
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Svoju prvu knjigu, zbirku priča pod nazivom "Gluvo doba" objavio je 2012. godine.
Priča "Hromi" mu je objavljena u zbirci "Nevidbog".
Takođe, priče su mu objavljivane i u tematskim časopisima (Omaja, Naslijeđe, Srp, i dr.) -
Elisabeth Norebäck
Elisabeth Norebäck (b. 1979) was born in Dalarna, Sweden, but lives in Stockholm with her husband and three children. She holds a Master of Science in Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
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TELL ME YOU’RE MINE was first published in 2017 and is Elisabeth Norebäck’s debut. NADIA was released in Sweden in December 2020. -
Hans Olav Lahlum
Hans Olav Lahlum (born 12 September 1973) is a Norwegian historian, crime author, chess player and organizer, and politician. He has written biographies on Oscar Torp and Haakon Lie, and a history book about all the Presidents of the United States.
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On May 22–23, 2013, he was interviewed by VG for 30 hours, 1 minute and 44 seconds, setting a Guinness World Record for the longest interview ever, beating the previous record by over four hours.
Lahlum is an active chess player with a FIDE rating of 2193 as of March 2014, having been an International Arbiter since 2000. -
Cecilia Samartin
I was born in Cuba at the height of the revolution. My family left when I was nine months old so I have no memories of my own, although I "borrowed" countless memories from my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.
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I grew up in a quiet Los Angeles suburb and secretly dreamed of becoming a writer, but after high school I decided to study psychology instead and became a marriage and family therapist. I'm glad I did because my experience as a therapist is what finally inspired me to face my fears, and embrace my dream of becoming a writer.
Most of my clients over the years have been immigrants like me so many of my stories reflect the themes of lost homeland, and the search for meaning/identity in a new world.
I think of myself m