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
Harry Barnett
Gender: Male
A tired and shabby middle-aged British man with an invalid’s pension, who works as a house caretaker in Greece in Robert Goddard’s first book about him. His major interest is to eat and drink, but for various reasons he becomes involved in a number of criminal cases; in one of them, too, he gets to find out that he has an unknown adult son. He gets married and settles in Vancouver – but is never...