Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2013)
Sample of authors
Eriksson, Kjell
The Swedish author and gardener Kjell Eriksson was born in Uppsala, Sweden and grew up in a working-class family on Ymergatan in the district of Almtuna. His father worked on the railway and his mother was a shop assistant. He has been employed as a construction worker and gardener, and he ran his own garden centre part-time before becoming a full-time author.
Kjell Eriksson has been a trade...
Literary figures
Henri Castang
Gender: Male
An experienced police officer, working in a nameless French city (which is reminiscent of Strasbourg), but also in places such as Brussels. Henri Castang is a thoughtful, eccentric detective who primarily searches for motives when he investigates a murder case. He is married to Vera, a Slovakian gymnast who was badly injured in a training exercise, and who has an important subsidiary role in...