Photo: NTB / TT (1997)
Sample of authors
Skagen, Fredrik
Fredrik Skagen is one of Norway’s most popular award-winning crime writers. He was born in Trondheim where he lived all his life. As a young man he wanted to be a jazz pianist, but he also enjoyed writing ever since his father gave him a typewriter when he was ten. Skagen trained as a librarian at Statens bibliotekskole in Oslo 1960–61, and in 1961–69 he worked as librarian in Trondheim and at the...
Literary figures
Milton Milodragovitch
Gender: Male
Like the author James Crumley’s other private detective, C.W. Sughrue, Milton ‘Milo’ Milodragovitch is a private detective in little Meriweather in Montana. He is an alcoholic, middle-aged war veteran, heavily into drugs, and he likes the ladies. Thanks to an inheritance, he can live with no cares, and make himself unpopular with the authorities. He does his detective work with one finger, but he...