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...
Literary figures
Ed Hunter
Gender: Male
He was 18 years old when his alcoholic father was murdered, which led him to seek out his uncle Am – whose background included working as a private detective. The duo solves the case, and later found their own private detective agency. Edward ‘Ed’ Hunter (sometimes called Eddie) is good-looking, is ambitious and falls helplessly in love with the beautiful women he meets in a suite of highly comme...