Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2016)
Sample of authors
Tvedt, Chris
The Norwegian author Baard Christian Tvedt was born in Bergen. He read architecture at the University of Birmingham, but dropped out after four years without graduating. He was instead awarded degrees in law and literature at the University of Bergen before working at the legal department of the Haugesund police department in 1987. He started his own legal practice the following year and...
Literary figures
Erlendur Sveinsson
Gender: Male
A detective inspector in Reykjavík, and the main character in a row of police novels by Arnaldur Indriðason. Erlendur – his surname, Sveinsson, is rarely named as is customary in Iceland – is a skilful and empathetic police officer, but rather tired and sometimes anxiety-ridden. One reason is that he left his family when the children were small, for reasons that he can’t himself remember. His ex-w...