Photo: Sophie Bassouls/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images (1990)
Sample of authors
Raymond, Derek
English author, who during a Bohemian and wandering life occupied himself with a number of different jobs and activities, a by-no-means small part of them criminal. This is also reflected in his books: he is known as a pioneer in the crime-literature sub-genre called ‘British noir’, and which is usually set in environments and among people at the bottom of society. The books have been criticised f...
Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2025)
Sample of authors
Lönnaeus, Olle
The journalist and author Olof "Olle" Lönnaeus was born in Tomelilla, Southeast Scania. After completing upper-secondary school in Ystad, he did his military service in Kristianstad before moving to Lund to read law with the intention of making his services available to the most disadvantaged in society. He graduated in 1983. After having served at a district court in Malmö and working for the p...
