Jan Guillou

Jan Oskar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou (born 17 January 1944) is a Swedish author and journalist. 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 (Pirate Publishing), together with Liza Marklund and his wife, publisher Ann-Marie Skarp.

Guillou's fame in Sweden was established during his time as an investigative journalist. In 1973, he and co-reporter Peter Bratt exposed a secret intelligence organization in Sweden, Informationsbyrån (IB). He is still active within journalism as a column writer for the Swedish evening tabloid Aftonbladet.

In October 2009, the tabloid Expressen accused Guillou of having been active as an agent of the Soviet spy organization KGB between 1967 and 1972. Jan Guillou confirmed he had a series of contacts with KGB representatives during this period, he also admits to having received payments from KGB, but maintains that his purpose was to collect information for his journalistic work. The accusation was based on documents released from the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) and interviews with former KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievsky. In a later trial, Expressen denied having accused Guillou of having been a Soviet spy, claiming that this was a false interpretation of its headlines and reporting.

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Camilla Grebe & Traff

Camilla Grebe, born in 1968, trained as an economist and co-founded Storyside, an audiobook publishing company.

She is the author of a series featuring a psychologist with co-author Traff, who (lke their protagonist) shares a private practice in cognitive behavioral therapy with two partners.

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Carin Gerhardsen

Carin Gerhardsen (born December 6, 1962 in Katrineholm, Sweden) is a Swedish author of crime fiction.

Originally a mathematician, Gerhardsen worked as a IT-consultant before becoming a full-time writer. Her mathematical knowledge is visible in her novels, containing advances calculated intrigues. Her popular book series The Hammarby Series, circles around Detective Inspector Conny Sjöberg and his team solving cruel and brutal murders in the southern parts of Stockholm. In 2012 her first novel in the series The Gingerbread House was released in America by the publishing house Stockholm Text.

Gerhardsen lives on Östermalm in Stockholm with her husband and children.

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Inger Frimansson

Inger Frimansson (born November 14, 1944 in Stockholm) is a popular Swedish novelist and crime writer.

 Having previously worked for 30 years as a journalist, her first novel The Double Bed (Dubbelsängen) was published in 1984. Since then she has written around twenty-five books including poetry, short stories, and books for children. Her breakthrough was with Godnatt, min älskade in 1998. Her crime novels are best described as psychological thrillers.

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Aris Fioretos

Aris Fioretos, born 6 February 1960 in Gothenburg, is a Swedish writer of Greek and Austrian extraction.

Aris Fioretos was born in Gothenburg. His Greek father was a professor of medicine, his Austrian mother ran a gallery. At home, German and Swedish were spoken. He grew up in Lund. He studied with Jacques Derrida in Paris, later at Stockholm and Yale Universities.

In 1991, Fioretos published his first book, a collection of prose poetry entitled Delandets bok (The Book of Imparting). Since then he has published several works of fiction, including Vanitasrutinerna (The Vanity Routines) (1998), Stockholm Noir (2000), Sanningen om Sascha Knisch (The Truth about Sascha Knisch) (2002), and Den sista greken (The Last Greek) (2009). The latter novel was shortlisted for Sweden's most prestigious literary award, the August Prize. In the winter of 2009 it was awarded the Gleerups Literary Prize, in the spring of 2010 the Novel Prize of Sveriges Radio. Between 2003 and 2007, Fioretos was Cultural Counsellor at the Swedish Embassy in Berlin. Fioretos's contribution to Sweden's most popular radio show, Sommar ("Summer"), a series of self-portraits by Swedes famous and unknown, was aired on July 16, 2010.

In 1991, Fioretos earned his PhD in Comparative Literature with The Critical Moment, a deconstructivist analysis of works by Friedrich Hölderlin, Walter Benjamin, and Paul Celan. He has held academic appointments at the Johns Hopkins University, Rutgers University, and Free University in Berlin. Since 2010, he is a professor of Aesthetics at Södertörn University College in Stockholm.

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Fioretos has received numerous grants and awards both in Sweden and abroad, including from The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, the Swedish Academy, the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, the DAAD Künstlerprogramm Berlin, the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Fund, the American Academy in Berlin, and All Souls College, Oxford. He is a Professor of Aesthetics at Södertörn University in Stockholm. Currently he is the Dag-Hammarskjöld-Gastprofessor at the Nordeuropa-Institut at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Fioretos is a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt, where, in 2011, he was elected vice president.

Fioretos has translated books by Paul Auster, Friedrich Hölderlin, Vladimir Nabokov, and Walter Serner, among others, into Swedish. He writes regularly for Sweden's largest daily, Dagens Nyheter. His fiction has been translated into several languages — including English, French, German, Dutch, Greek, Norwegian, Romanian, and Serbian.

Kjell Eriksson

Karl Stig Kjell Eriksson (born 1953 in Uppsala) is a Swedish crime-writer, author of the novels The Princess of Burundi and The Cruel Stars of the Night, the former of which was awarded the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Best Swedish Crime Novel Award in 2002.

His books have been translated into English by Ebba Segerberg.

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Jan Ekström

Jan Ekström was born in Falun in 1923.

Esktrom wrote mysteries, including ones based on classic "locked room" scenarios, worked in advertising, and wrote film scripts.

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Kerstin Ekman

Kerstin Lillemor Ekman (born 27 August 1933 in Risinge, Finspång, Östergötland County) is a Swedish novelist.

Kerstin Ekman wrote a string of successful detective novels (among others De tre små mästarna and Dödsklockan) but later went on to psychological and social themes. Among her later works is Mörker och blåbärsris (1972) (set in northern Sweden) and Händelser vid vatten (1993), in which she returned to the form of the detective novel.

Ekman was elected member of the Swedish Academy in 1978, but left the Academy in 1989, together with Lars Gyllensten and Werner Aspenström, due to the debate following death threats posed to Salman Rushdie. According to the rules of the Academy, however, she will remain a passive member for the entirety of her life.

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Åke Edwardson

Åke Edwardson (born March 10, 1953 in Eksjö, Småland) 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.

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Dagmar Edqvist

Dagmar Edqvist (Dagmar Ingeborg Hasslöf Edquist), born April 20, 1903 in Visby and died January 21, 2000 in Lulea, was a Swedish author.

Edqvist's best-known book is probably The case Ingegerd Bremssen from 1937. She wrote many books in the 1970s, several of the latter set in East Africa.

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Tim Davys

Tim Davys is a Swedish author pseudonym . It is not widely known who hides behind the pseudonym and only two are said to know who it is - Jonas Axelsson a publisher for the book and its contact with the author.

                                                      Only known photo of the author

Davy's books are set in a fictional town populated by toy animals but with human characteristics.

This is what the author tells about himself in his publisher's website:

'A dark and stormy night…I was born in a country far, far away. Before the age of 20, I never read a book. Comic books, magazines, and movies taught me how to tell a story. I studied literature, got a job, found a wife, and bought a dog. I studied psychology, got another job, held on to the wife, and wrote a book.

Today I'm much older than I used to be. The dog is much older too. I would never comment on the age of my wife. The idea going forward is to stay alive, write a lot more, and adapt to a life in New York City. But if I've learnt on thing in this life (and I know I have), it's this: It's never going to turn out the way you intended.'

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Jan Arnald / Arne Dahl

Jan Arnald (born 11 January 1963) 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.

He published Barbarer (2001) and Maria och Artur (2006) under his own name, but under his pen name he has written a series of crime novels about fictional group of Swedish crime investigators, called "A Gruppen" in Swedish, "die A-Gruppe" in the German translations, and "the Intercrime Group" in the first English translation. The books have been translated into several languages.

The first five books were made into 180-minute films and have been released on DVD with English subtitles in Sweden. The first, Misterioso, was screened on SVT1 in Sweden on 27 and 28 December 2011. The series was picked up by BBC 4 and screened on British television on Saturday nights as part of BBC 4's foreign crime series season starting in April 2013.

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Camilla Ceder

Camilla Ceder, born in 1976 in Olofstorp, is a Swedish social worker and writer living in Goteborg in Gothenburg.

Ceder debuted in 2009 with the crime novel Frozen moment. In Fall 2010 appeared Babylon, her second novel. The books main character is Detective Chief Inspector Christian Tell and journalist student Seja Lundberg . Translation rights to her first novel Frozen moments have been sold to eight languages.

Frozen Moment and Babylon has been translated to English.

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Carina Burman

Carina Burman (born 1960) is a Swedish novelist and literature scholar. Her research has been focused on Swedish 18th and 19th century literature. She completed her Ph.D. in literature in Uppsala in 1988 with a dissertation on the Gustavian writer Johan Henric Kellgren. Later production includes a critical edition of previously unpublished letters of the novelist and feminist pioneer Fredrika Bremer in two volumes (1996) and a biography of Bremer (2001).

Together with her husband, Professor Lars Burman, she has published critical editions on behalf of the Swedish Academy of the works of Johan Henric Kellgren (1995), Fredrika Bremer's "Livet i gamla världen. Palestina" (1995) and the poetic works of Erik Gustaf Geijer (1999). Carina and Lars Burman have also edited Bremer's "Grannarne" for the series of Swedish literature published by Svenska Vitterhetssamfundet (2000).

Burman's novels have historical motifs, often taking the form of a pastiches. Her first, "Min salig bror Jean Hendrich" (1993) deals with Johan Henric Kellgren from the point of view of his brother and his mistress in a series of letters. Her latest two novels, "Babylons gator" (2004) and "Vit som marmor" (2006) have the form of detective novels. "Babylons gator: Ett Londonmysterum" (The Streets of Babylon: A London Mystery), which borrows from English novels of the Victorian period, has Euthanasia Bondeson, a Swedish woman novelist-amateur sleuth visiting London, as its main character. In "Vit som marmor" (White as marble), Euthanasia Bondeson travels to Rome and solves a murder mystery in the Scandinavian artist colony.

Her novel, Bablyons gator has been translated to Engligh as The Streets of Babylon.

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Kjell-Olof Bornemark

Kjell-Olof Bornemark (1924-2006) wrote philosophical novels about spies and players.

His espionage novels were predominantly set in the final days of Cold War.

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August Blanche

August Blanche (1811 - 1868) was born in Stockholm outside marriage – his father, Mårten Christoffer Bergvall, was a priest and his mother, Katarina Hedberg, a servant girl.

As a novelist Blanche was influenced by Eugene Sue and Alexandre Dumas (sr.); Den broderade plånboken (1845, The embroidered wallet) was a social in the spirit of Honore de Balzac. He produced among others such routine novels as the melodramatic Vålnaden (1847), Banditen (1848; Engl. tr. The Bandit, 1872), which had as a background the revolutionary France of 1848, and Första älskarinnan  (1848), about a woman torn between two rivals and her rise from humble origins to riches.

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Karin Alvtegen

Karin 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.

Alvtegen's second novel, Missing, was awarded the premier Nordic crime writing award the Glass Key in 2001. Translated in 2003 and published in the United States in 2009, the novel was nominated for the 2009 Edgar Award for best novel by the Mystery Writers of America. In 2006, the novel was adapted into a television series directed by Ian Madden and with Joanne Frogatt and Gregor Fisher.

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Alvtegen's 2005 novel Shame was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie International Dagger award for crime novels in translation upon publication in English.

Alvtegen has worked as a teleplay writer, having penned 24 episodes of the Swedish soap opera Rederiet.

She is grandniece of the children's novelist Astrid Lindgren.