Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2014)
Sample of authors
Edwardson, Åke
Swedish author and journalist, born in Tranås and raised in Vrigstad and Sävsjö. Åke Edwardson studied history of literature and journalism at Växjö, Göteborg and Lund with a break in 1981–1982 when he served with UN forces in the Middle East. He graduated in 1987 and then worked for the regional dailies Smålänningen and Göteborgs-Posten until he became a freelance writer in 1992, specialising in...
Literary figures
Dudley Smith
Gender: Male
Police officer in Los Angeles in four of James Ellroy’s novels. Dudley Smith was born in Ireland, he is tall and broad shouldered, and goes all in brown, one could say: he has brown hair cut very short, brown eyes and he usually wears a shabby, brown suit. Few police officers in crime fiction have been described as so unsympathetic: he is an egoistic and violent bully and, it turns out, a m...