Sample of authors
Lagercrantz, David
David Lagercrantz is a Swedish author and journalist born in Solna and brought up there and in Drottningholm, both near Stockholm. He attended the Kungsholmen upper-secondary school and read philosophy and theology at university before transferring to the University of Gothenburg Department of Journalism, Media and Communication in the 1980s. After graduation he worked, among other things, at...
Literary figures
Ludwig Licht
Gender: Male
An odd character, he started his career as an agent for Stasi, moved over to the CIA and then tried to make his way in the restaurant business, but instead became a freelance spy. Thomas Engström has created an anti-hero in Ludwig Licht, whose father was a Nazi. He is addicted to alcohol and amphetamines, is always irritated and usually looks rather the worse for wear and in need of a haircut – ‘l...