Per Wahloo
With its wonderfully observed lawmen (including the inimitable Martin Beck), its brilliantly rendered felons and their murky Stockholm underworld, and its deftly engineered plot, A woman robs a bank. A corpse is found shot through the heart in a ... [... more]
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Maj Sjowall
With its wonderfully observed lawmen (including the inimitable Martin Beck), its brilliantly rendered felons and their murky Stockholm underworld, and its deftly engineered plot, On a July afternoon, the body of a young woman is dredged from ... [... more]
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Art Spiegelman
Perhaps best known for his masterful Holocaust narratives Maus and Maus II- which in 1992 won a Pulitzer Prize-Art Spiegelman is one of the world's best known and beloved comic artists. Born in Stockholm in 1948, Spiegelman rejected his parents' ... [... more]
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Hjalmar Soderberg
Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession. Lonely and introspective, ... [... more]
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Tomas Transtromer
Tomas Transtromer was born in Stockholm in 1931. One of Sweden's most distinguished poets, he has received both the prestigious Bonner Poetry Prize and Germany's Petrarch Prize. His most recent book, Selected Poems, 1954-1986, edited by Robert ... [... more]
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