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Sample of authors
Larsson, Åsa
Swedish crime writer and former tax lawyer born in Uppsala. Both parents grew up near the city of Kiruna in the north of Sweden – Åsa Larsson’s grandfather is the Olympic gold-winning skier Erik "Kiruna-Lasse" Larsson – and she moved there with her family when she was four years old. She grew up in Kiruna and spent her summer holidays with her grandmother in the village of Kurkkio in Pajala. When...
Literary figures
Lennart Kollberg
Gender: Male
Martin Beck’s second-in-command and good friend in the books by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö is Lennart Kollberg, a bohemian, overweight (but in good physical trim) former paratrooper, conscientious objector and Marxist who finally tires of his job in the police and give his notice. Kollberg has two major interests in life: food and his family; his 14-year younger wife, Gun – with whom he often enjoys...