Photo: NTB / TT (1997)
Sample of authors
Skagen, Fredrik
Fredrik Skagen is one of Norway’s most popular award-winning crime writers. He was born in Trondheim where he lived all his life. As a young man he wanted to be a jazz pianist, but he also enjoyed writing ever since his father gave him a typewriter when he was ten. Skagen trained as a librarian at Statens bibliotekskole in Oslo 1960–61, and in 1961–69 he worked as librarian in Trondheim and at the...
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Läckberg, Camilla
Detective-story writer Camilla Läckberg has mainly killed people off in the village of Fjällbacka, on the west coast of Sweden, where she was born and grew up and feels at home. Her father was a policeman for a short period before he had to retire for health reasons, and from him she inherited her interest in reading and writing as well as a large collection of detective stories. She likes to d...
