Photo: Jan Collsjöö / TT (1998)
Sample of authors
Larsson, Stieg
Stieg Larsson was a Swedish author and journalist who, despite only publishing three novels, is one of Sweden’s best-selling authors of fiction ever, both at home and abroad. He was born as Karl Stig-Erland Larsson in Skelleftehamn, but since his parents were only nineteen years old and had no money at the time, he was brought up by his grandparents, initially in the small village of Utviken and l...
Literary figures
Harriet Martens
Gender: Female
Not without reason, she is called ‘The Hard Detective’, and Chief Inspector Harriet Martens in Greater Birchester is tough. She needs to be: she has to sort our various problems in her own police force as well as struggling against uncomprehending superiors. But her creator H.R.F. Keating lets her have a happy private life with her husband John – at any rate until their adult twin sons are the vic...