Photo: Ulla Montan (1993) / TT
Sample of authors
Blom, K. Arne
The Swedish author K. (Karl) Arne Blom was born in Nässjö where he passed his baccalaureate in 1967. Later the same year, he moved to Lund where he attended university, and was living there ever since. Blom graduated with a BA in 1972. He worked as a councillor at Lund University, as a freelance journalist, translator and literature critic.
Blom became a member of the Swedish Crime Writers’ Aca...
Literary figures
Harriet Vane
Gender: Female
At the age of 29, crime writer Harriet Vane stands trial accused of having poisoned her lover. She is shown to be innocent by Lord Peter Wimsey, who falls in love with her and then in some of Dorothy L. Sayers’ novels courts the independent Vane. She participates in his investigations, but is not interested in a more intimate relationship with him. Eventually, however, she gives in, they get m...