Photo Søren Bidstrup (2009) / Ritzau Scanpix / TT
Sample of authors
Bodelsen, Anders
Anders Bodelsen was a Danish author, journalist and critic born in the Copenhagen district of Frederiksberg. He then lived in Klampenborg with his wife, Eva, who is a librarian. They were married in 1975 and got two daughters together. Anders Bodelsen’s father, C.A. Bodelsen, was a professor of English literature and his mother, Merete Bodelsen, a highly regarded art historian. Bodelsen g...
Literary figures
Harry Kvist
Gender: Male
An odd character and an amateur detective: an ex-boxer and prison inmate who works as a debt-collector, is bi-sexual and drinks too much. The setting is Stockholm in the 1930s in a trio of novels by Martin Holmén. Harry Kvist is single, with few friends (but a lot of acquaintances), not particularly bright, but well-built, and he all too often uses his fists when trouble arises.