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 | K. O. Dahl
K. O. Dahl (born 4 February 1958) is an acclaimed Norwegian writer, and lives with his wife and children in Askim, near Oslo. His first novel Deadly Investments was published in Norway in 1993. He has written eleven novels since 1993, mostly crime novels with a psychological interest. So far, two of his novels have been published in English. Both feature the Oslo detectives Frank Frølich and Inspector Gunnarstranda. |
|  | 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. |
|  | Karin Fossum
Karin Fossum (born 6 November 1954, Sandefjord) 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. She is the author of the internationally successful Inspector Konrad Sejer series of crime novels, which have been translated into over 16 languages. |
|  | Peter Høeg
Peter Høeg is a celebrated Danish writer of fiction. He received a Master of Arts in Literature from the University of Copenhagen in 1984. Before becoming a writer, he lived a very varied life -- from working on ships to being a ballet dancer (in addition to fencing and mountaineering) -- experiences he uses in his novels. He lives in Copenhagen with his daughters. |
|  | Arnaldur Indriðason
Arnaldur Indridason was born in 1961, the son of an Icelandic author. Having worked for many years as a journalist and critic for an Icelandic newspaper, he began writing novels. He has repeatedly proved to be the most popular writer in Iceland in recent years - topping bestseller lists year after year. At one week in the summer of 2003, his crime novels occupied the top five spots in the Icelandic bestseller list. He lives in Reykjavík with his wife and three children. |
|  | Camilla Läckberg
Born in 1971, Camilla Läckberg graduated from Gothenburg University of Economics, before moving to Stockholm where she worked for a few years as an economist. However, a course in creative crime writing became the trigger to a drastic change of career. Her first four novels all became Swedish bestsellers. One of Sweden's youngest successful female writers in her genre, Läckberg's books are always set in or around her birthplace, the small Swedish west coast town of Fjällbacka. |
|  | Åsa Larsson
Åsa Larsson (born 28 June 1966 in Uppsala) is a Swedish crime-writer. Although born in Uppsala, she was raised in Kiruna in the far north. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Larsson was a tax lawyer, a profession she shares with the heroine of her novels, Rebecka Martinsson. Her first novel published in the UK (under the title The Savage Altar), was shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger. |
|  | Stieg Larsson
Karl Stig-Erland Larsson (15 August 1954 9 November 2004) was a Swedish journalist and writer, born in Skelleftehamn outside Skellefteå. He is best known for his authorship of the Millennium Trilogy of crime novels which were published posthumously. Larsson was initially a political activist for the Kommunistiska Arbetareförbundet (Communist Workers League), a photographer, and one of Sweden's leading science fiction fans. In politics he was the editor of the Swedish Trotskyist journal Fjärde internationalen. Larsson died in Stockholm at the age of 50 of a massive heart attack. At his death, Larsson left behind manuscripts of three completed but unpublished novels in a series. He wrote them for his own pleasure after returning home from his job in the evening, making no attempt to get them published until shortly before his death. |
|  | Henning Mankell
Henning Mankell (born 3 February 1948) is a renowned Swedish crime writer, occasional children's author and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most iconic creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He now lives in Mozambique, with his wife and two children, where he is working to set up a national theatre company. |
|  | Jo Nesbø
Jo Nesbø is a musician, songwriter, economist and author. His first crime novel featuring Harry Hole was published in Norway in 1997 and was an instant hit, winning the Glass Key Award for best Nordic crime novel (an accolade shared with Peter H-eg, Henning Mankell and Karin Fossum). Another of the series was recently voted best Norwegian crime novel of all time by Norwegian readers. The Devil's Star is the first of his novels to be translated into English. |
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