Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2026)
Sample of authors
Smirnoff, Karin (f. 1964)
Karin Smirnoff has the same name as August Strindberg’s daughter, dramatist and author Karin Smirnoff (1880-1973) who also wrote novels. ‘Our’ Karin Smirnoff grew up in Stockholm, but now lives in Hertsånger in Västerbotten, northern Sweden. She has her roots on her mother’s side in the same area. Karin has previously worked as a journalist and photographer, one of her employers being Västerbot...
Literary figures
Nigel Strangeways
Gender: Male
He is tall and slim, has blond hair and blue, somewhat short-sighted eyes. He resembles the poet W.H. Auden, and his creator Nicholas Blake (pseudonym for the poet Cecil Day Lewis) has admitted that he had his good friend as model. Nigel Strangeways is a private detective in London, and at first lives together with his wife Georgia Cavendish, but after her death in the war, with the sculptress...