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Frimansson, Inger
Inger Frimansson is a Swedish author born in Stockholm as Inger Wilén. Her father was an engineer. Frimansson passed her baccalaureate in Jönköping in 1965. She won a number of writing competitions while still at school, including the national school competition "The Little Noble Prize" in 1963, which allowed her to attend the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm. She worked as a volunteer at the Jö...
Literary figures
Erlendur Sveinsson
Gender: Male
A detective inspector in Reykjavík, and the main character in a row of police novels by Arnaldur Indriðason. Erlendur – his surname, Sveinsson, is rarely named as is customary in Iceland – is a skilful and empathetic police officer, but rather tired and sometimes anxiety-ridden. One reason is that he left his family when the children were small, for reasons that he can’t himself remember. His ex-w...