Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2015)
Sample of authors
Grebe, Camilla
The Swedish writer, Camilla Grebe (born Eriksson), has written a series of crime novels, both herself and in collaboration with others. She was born and grew up in Älvsjö on the outskirts of Stockholm. After graduating from high school at Norra Real upper-secondary school, she trained to do an MBA specializing in marketing at the Stockholm School of Economics between 1987–2000. She worked as a mar...
Literary figures
Martin Beck
Gender: Male
Few Swedes can have escaped Inspector Martin Beck of the Stockholm police department. A principal character in Maj Sjöwall’s and Per Wahlöö’s ten police novels, he is the typical meticulous, unhappily married, ulcer-suffering inspector in contemporary crime fiction. He has won international fame through the books and a string of adaptations for film and television.