Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT (2009)
Sample of authors
Grytten, Frode
Frode Grytten is a Norwegian author and journalist born and raised in Odda, a small industrial community in southwest Norway. His mother was a hairdresser and his father a furniture salesman. He now lives with his wife and children in Bergen where he moved as a student. He began to write at an early age and has, among other things, worked for the Bergen’s Tidende newspaper and the Magasinet I...
Literary figures
Jonathan Wide
Gender: Male
Jonathan Wide has his roots in Småland, southern Sweden, and has been a detective with the Gothenburg police. He leaves his job, however, and becomes a private detective. In the background, there is a difficult divorce which has meant that he misses his children and drinks too much. Wide still has contact with his former colleagues, especially Sten Ard, with whom he cooperates in a couple of ...