Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2016)
Sample of authors
Lindstein, Mariette
Swedish author and lecturer, born as Mariette Westam in Halmstad, where she also grew up. As a child, she wrote ghost stories, and when she was in her teens she wrote short stories which she got published in magazines for teenagers. After finishing upper-secondary school, she became interested in scientology and moved to Malmö in 1978 together with her boyfriend to go on some of the courses ...
Literary figures
Torsdag Nesta
Gender: Female
She is called Thursday Next, and is an agent for a state organisation in an absurd, parallel world (i.e. parallel to our own) that is imbued with literary features. She is newly married – we get to know that her husband Landen Parke-Laine drowned when he was three years old – and has a son Friday. Her mother is called Wednesday. Jasper Fforde has written a suite of very different fantasy crime nov...