WKarin Alfredsson is a Swedish writer and journalist.
WKarin Alvtegen is a Swedish author of crime fiction. Alvtegen's psychological thrillers are generally set in Sweden. Four of her books have been translated into English: Missing, Betrayal, Shadow and Shame.
WJan Arnald is a Swedish novelist and literary critic, who uses the pen name Arne Dahl when writing crime fiction. He is also a regular writer in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
WLars Anders Thomas de la Motte, born June 19, 1971 in Billesholm in Skåne County, is a Swedish crime writer.
WÅke Edwardson is a Swedish author of detective fiction, and was previously a lecturer in journalism at Gothenburg University, the city where many of his Inspector Winter novels are set. Edwardson has had many jobs, including as a journalist and press officer for the United Nations and his crime novels have made him a three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Award for best crime novel. His first novel to be translated into English, in 2005, was Sun and Shadow. The second, Never End, followed in 2006.
WChristina Erikson, née Granbom, is a Swedish crime-author. She is also an surgery-nurse and she has a degree in media and communication science.
WKarl Stig Kjell Eriksson is a Swedish writer, author of the detective chief inspector Ann Lindell crime novels. Den upplysta stigen, the first of the Lindell series, was named Best First Novel of 1999 by the Swedish Crime Academy. Prinsessan av Burundi, fourth in the series, was awarded the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Best Swedish Crime Novel Award in 2002. Öppen grav, published in 2009, was the tenth and final novel in the series. Currently only eight Lindell novels are available in English, though St. Martin's Press has the rights to the whole series.
WNils Olof Franzén was a Swedish author who wrote the Agaton Sax series. He was born 23 August 1916, in Oxelösund. He died on 24 February 1997, at age 81. Franzén had a wife and three children. His son Bo is still alive, along with two sisters. His literary estate is represented by ALIS.
WCarin Gerhardsen is a Swedish author of crime fiction.
WAnna Malin Ulrika Persson Giolito is a Swedish author and lawyer. She is the daughter of novelist and criminologist, Leif G. W. Persson. Persson Giolito wrote the award-winning book Störst av allt (Quicksand) which has won the awards for Best Swedish Crime Novel in 2016, Glass Key Award in 2017 and the Prix du Polar Européen in 2018.
WCamilla Grebe is a Swedish writer. She is a recipient of the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award and the Glass Key award.
WJan Oskar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou is a French-Swedish author and journalist. Guillou's fame in Sweden was established during his time as an investigative journalist, most notably in 1973 when he and co-reporter Peter Bratt exposed a secret and illegal intelligence organization in Sweden, Informationsbyrån (IB). He is still active within journalism as a column writer for the Swedish evening tabloid Aftonbladet. Among his books are a series of spy fiction novels about a spy named Carl Hamilton, and a trilogy(+) of historical fiction novels about a Knight Templar, Arn Magnusson. He is the owner of one of the largest publishing companies in Sweden, Piratförlaget, together with his wife, publisher Ann-Marie Skarp, and Liza Marklund.
WBörge Lennart Hellström was a Swedish writer. A reformed criminal, he was perhaps best known as a founding member of the organisation Kriminellas revansch i samhället (KRIS). The organisation aims to combat crime and provide support to former criminals. He was also one half of the writing duo Roslund & Hellström. With journalist Anders Roslund, he co-authored seven books between 2004 and 2016.
WÅke Robert Holmberg was a Swedish author and translator, most famous for his nine children's books about detective Tam Sventon.
WAnna Maria Angelika Jansson is a Swedish crime writer and nurse from Visby, Gotland. She started her career as a surgeon nurse, but soon went over to the lung clinic due to her frequent fainting from seeing blood.
WMari Jungstedt is a Swedish journalist and crime fiction author.
WRobert Karjel is a Swedish writer of literary thrillers. He was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, and lives in Stockholm. A helicopter pilot, he is a Lt. Colonel in the Swedish Air Force and the only Swedish pilot who has trained with the U.S. Marines.
WLars Kepler is the pseudonym of husband and wife team Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril, authors of the Joona Linna series. With seven installments to date, the series has sold more than 14 million copies in 40 languages. The Ahndorils were both established writers before they adopted the pen name Lars Kepler, and have each published several acclaimed novels.
WJean Edith Camilla Läckberg Eriksson is a Swedish crime writer. As of the early-2010s, her work has been translated into more than 40 languages in 60 countries. She has been called "the rock star of Nordic noir."
WDagmar Maria Lange was a Swedish author of crime fiction under the pen name Maria Lang. She was one of the first detective novelists in the Swedish language, and her books helped make the genre popular in Sweden.
WJens Jacob Lapidus is a Swedish criminal defense lawyer and author known for his books about the Stockholm underworld.
WÅsa Larsson is a Swedish crime-fiction writer. Although born in Uppsala, she was raised in Kiruna in the far north. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Larsson was a tax lawyer, a profession she shares with the heroine of her novels, Rebecka Martinsson. Her first Rebecka Martinsson novel, Solstorm, was awarded the Swedish Crime Writers' Association prize for best first novel. It was published in the UK and was shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger. Her second Rebecka Martinsson novel, Det blod som spillts, won the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award. Till offer åt Molok, her fifth Rebecka Martinsson novel also won the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award. Her books and characters serve as the basis for the internationally successful TV series Rebecka Martinsson.
WKarl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson was a Swedish journalist and writer. He is best known for writing the Millennium trilogy of crime novels, which were published posthumously, starting in 2005, after the author died suddenly of a heart attack. The trilogy was adapted as three motion pictures in Sweden, and one in the U.S.. The publisher commissioned David Lagercrantz to expand the trilogy into a longer series, which has six novels as of September 2019. For much of his life, Larsson lived and worked in Stockholm. His journalistic work covered socialist politics and he acted as an independent researcher of right-wing extremism.
WHenning Georg Mankell was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He also wrote a number of plays and screenplays for television.
WEva Elisabeth "Liza" Marklund is a Swedish journalist and crime writer.
WJan Per Gösta Mårtenson is a Swedish diplomat who is also famous as the author of some fifty Swedish crime novels.
WBodil Mårtensson is a Swedish author of crime (police) novels and adventure books for the moderately young.
WHåkan Nesser is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a number of successful novels, mostly but not only crime fiction. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the prestigious Glass Key award in 2000. His books have been translated from Swedish into more than twenty languages.
WKristina Ohlsson is a Swedish political scientist and award-winning writer.
WLeif Gustav Willy Persson is a Swedish criminologist and novelist. Persson has four children, one of whom, Malin Persson Giolito, is also a crime writer.
WHans Rosenfeldt is a Swedish screenwriter, radio presenter, novelist and actor. He co-created the Swedish series De drabbade (2003) and Oskyldigt dömd (2008–09), and created the Scandinavian series The Bridge (2011–2018) and the ITV/Netflix series Marcella (2016–).
WEmelie Schepp is a Swedish crime author. Her crime novels are centered around Norrköping and focus on the main figure Jana Berzelius, a public prosecutor. In 2013, she made her debut with the crime novel Märkta för livet which sold 40,000 copies in just six months. She then signed a book deal for three books with Wahlström & Widstrand in the fall of 2014, re-releasing her debut book the same year.
WMaj Sjöwall was a Swedish author and translator. She is best known for her books about police detective Martin Beck. She wrote the books in collaborative work with her partner Per Wahlöö.
WViveca Sten is a Swedish writer and lawyer. She has a law degree from Stockholm University and has an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics. Previously, she worked at Scandinavian Airlines, has had a highly successful legal career as a lawyer and held the position as General Counsel at PostNord, but left in 2011 to focus on her writing. Viveca lives with her family just north of Stockholm. Since 1917, Viveca´s family have spent all their summers at Sandhamn a small settlement in the central-peripheral part of the Stockholm Archipelago where her crime fiction novels are set frequently.
WJohan Theorin is a journalist and author, born in 1963 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Throughout his life, Johan Theorin has been a regular visitor to the island of Öland in the Baltic sea. His mother’s family–sailors, fishermen and stone cutters–have lived there for centuries, nurturing the island’s legacy of supernatural tales and folklore.
WStieg Ivar Trenter was a Swedish journalist and popular crime writer.
WHelene Tursten is a Swedish writer of crime fiction. The main character in her stories is Detective Inspector Irene Huss. Before becoming an author, Tursten worked as a nurse and then a dentist, but was forced to leave due to illness. During her illness she worked as a translator of medical articles.
WPer Fredrik Wahlöö – in English translations often identified as Peter Wahloo – was a Swedish author. He is perhaps best known for the collaborative work with his partner Maj Sjöwall on a series of ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police detective in Stockholm, published between 1965 and 1975. In 1971, The Laughing Policeman won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Novel. Wahlöö and Sjöwall also wrote novels separately.
WHelena von Zweigbergk is a Swedish journalist, author and film critic. She is known for the radio program, Spanarna, and SVT Filmkrönikan. She has written a number of crime novels around the character Ingrid Carlberg, a prison chaplain. In 2014, she won the competition På spåret.