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Mauri Sariola (1924-1985) wrote also as Esko Laukko was a Finnish mystery writer, who gained international fame with his inspector Susikoski stories. Among Sariola's best mystery novels were Leivätön pöytä on katettu (1958), Susikoski ottaa omansa (1959), Minä, Olavi Suskoski (1963), and Susikosken vaikein juttu (1967). Sariola received the French literary prize Prix du Roman d'adventures for his novel The Helsinki Affair (1961, Lavean tien laki), his most popular novel, which in Finland sold some 100,000 copies. The protagonist is a young lawyer, Matti Viima, who has an attractive secretary but not too busy in his office. He starts to investigate a case, in which his client has received threatening letters. The search of the blackmailer turns into a murder hunt. Finally Viima unmasks the offenders - his secretary and his client's friend Sistonen - in his capacity as Counsel for the Defence at the Helsinki Criminal Court. 'Sistonen was broad-shouldered, but not very tall - a feature which must go against him, I thought. I was about his height myself, though leaner. I had never liked big men: they were usually bumptious and smug, amd apt to throw their weight about. But as I looked at my secretary's legs with their powerful calves and slender ankles, and the way she walked with light, rhythmic steps and head held high, I suddenly wished that I were a good bit taller.' (from The Helsinki Affair). Mauri Sariola was born in Hattula. His father, Armas Sariola, was educated as a teacher, like several other members of the family. Later Sariola continued the tradition and worked as a teacher in the early 1950s. Mauri was the youngest of three children. His older brother Lauri died of drowning in 1935. Sariolan graduated from the Toijala upper secondary school in 1943. During the Continuation War, he served under General Ruben Lagus in Äänislinna as a radio officer and participated in the combats against the German Army in Lapland. In 1945 Sariola entered the University of Helsinki, where he studied law for some years. Before abandoning his studies, Sariola had several jobs. He worked at a law firm (1947-48), in a bank (1949-59), taught in elementary schools, and wrote for Apu and other magazines and the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. While in Kittlä in 1952 Sariola composed his first mystery novel, but burned the manuscript. After a brief stint in Helsinki, Sariola went to Pudasjärvi, where he worked as a teacher for nine months under forged papers, drinking occasionally on his free time. Sariola's pedagogical methods were original but he was loved by his pupils. Sariola returned in 1955 to Helsinki. Between the years 1956 and 1966 he was a crime reporter at Helsingin Sanomat, and then became a freelance writer. According to one of the several stories dealing with Sariola, the author had read M.M. Kaye's novel Kuolema kulki Kyproksella (Death Walks in Cyprus) and decided to show that he can write a better book. However, M.M. Kaye's works were translated into Finnish after Sariola's debut. His first book, Laukausten hinta (1956) Sariola while working on a road construction project. It was followed by Rotat pois laivasta! (1956). Sariola was called the successor of Vilho Helanen (1899-1952), who had made his breakthrough as a mystery writer a decade earlier. The book was filmed in 1959 under the title Kolmas laukaus. Part of the film was shot in Morocco. Ismo Kallio played the inspector Olavi Susikoski, perhaps the best known police character in Finnish literature after Mika Waltari's inspector Palmu. In the story Susikoski solves the murder of an agronomist. Totuus on armoton (1960), about two lawyers, was filmed in 1963, but did not gain much success. It was directed by Valentin Vaala, who had made 43 feature films and failed in his last effort. Susikoski virittää ansan (1970) was adapted into screen under the name Tuntematon ystävä (1978) by the director Lars G. Thelestam. Åke Lindman played Susikoski, and the Finnish Miss Universum 1975, Anne Pohtamo, had a small role as Susikoski's girl friend. A very prolific writer, Sariola occupied a central place in the Finnish mystery scene for decades. In 1966 he published five books. Two of them appeared under the pseudonym Esko Laukko, starting from Tohtori Viitasen tapaus. Several of his books Sariola wrote in Sammatti, where he had a summer house. Sariola used the pen name Esko Laukko in nine novels - some of them were better received than his own works. Especially Sen yli käy vain tuuli viheltäin (1969) was noted for its skillful plot. However, the story was a plagiarism from Bill S. Ballinger's classical The Tooth and the Nail (1955). After the pseudonym was revealed, Sariola claimed that Laukko was his wife Tuula Sariola. Mauri Sariola died in Helsinki on August 9, 1985. He wrote nearly 80 books, most of which were published by Gummerus. Some of them were put together from his serialized short stories. Sariola was a natural story-teller and a bohemian, who had a a taste for gambling, drinking and sending telegrams in the middle of the night. His style was fluid, plots fast-paced, but characters too often cursory sketched. Sariola published over 30 crime novels, several historical novels, war novels, non-fiction, short stories, television scripts, radio plays, memoirs, and translated works from such authors as Erle Stanley Gardner, Quentin Patrick and Ian Fleming. His books were translated into Swedish, French, Russia, German, English, Norwegian, and Estonian. As a mystery writer he carried further the Finnish detective story tradition of Outsider and Marton Taiga, but added to it international flavour and topicality. His best-known characters include Inspector Olavi Susikoski, the hero of more than 30 novels, and Matti Viima, a lawyer, the central character in five novels. In Pyykki on pantu ja pysyy (1965) Viima met Susikoski. Although Sariola had served in the army during the war, he never was especially interested in the subject like Niilo Lauttamus, but anyhow published some war novels. Aamu Heinjoen tiellä (1966) was based on true events. The protagonist is a young soldier, who destroys with his antitank gun ten tanks before dying. The soldier, Kauko Tuomala, was awarded posthumously the Mannerheim Cross for bravery. Sariola used a real life model for the character, as in Kolmannen valtakunnan kuningatar (1972), which told of Hitler's chauffeur, Erich Kempka. Sariola had read Kempka's book, Ich habe Adolf Hitler verbrantt, and also met him in Freiburg. When critics have considered Aamu Heinjoen tiellä one of Sariola's best war novels, the latter arose much controversy, because it gave somewhat positive picture of Hitler and Eva Braun, the dictator's longtime mistress. The critic Pekka Tarkka wrote that the book openly admires a person, who is seen as the embodiment of destructive lust for power, irrational racial theories, and mad violence. In 1971 Veikko Huovinen had published a satirical novel about mass hysteria, dictators, and Hitler, entitled Veitikka. He was afraid that his novel would be considered a similar kind of questionable entertainment than Sariola's work. Sariola also wrote three novels about soldiers, who were rewarded the Mannerheim Cross for excellent heroism. The trilogy Talvisodan vänrikki (1979), Jatkosodan kapteeni (1980), and Jälleenrakennettu maa (1981) covered the Winter War (1939-40), the Continuation War (1941-44) and post-war period of reconstruction. Armeija piikkilankojen takana dealt with Finnish prisoners of war. Sariola did not gain the acceptance of the cultural elite, who considered his works unfashionably conservative and carelessly composed. However, Sariola had a good eye for details. His observations about clothes, furnishings, restaurants, drinks, food, and on the other had sexual morals give a vivid picture of the Finnish way of life from the 1950s to mid-1980s. According to some sources, Sariola's Isänmaan parturit (1958), a story about political horse trades, angered President Urho Kekkonen, and the author had to wait in the reserve for his promotion to lieutenant for a long time. Eventually Sariola got his long awaited promotion after Mauno Koivosto was elected president of Finland in 1982 - during the Continuation War Koivisto had served under Lauri Törni (later Larry Thorne) in the Törni Detachment. From 1970 Sariola was married to Tuula Sariola (original surname Korpela). From his first marriage to Anja Karjalainen Sariola had three children. Under Tuula Sariola's name, the Susikoski series was continued in Susikosken paluu (1992), Susikoski Orilammella (1994) etc. The love novel Ampiaispesä (1997) depicted her relationship with the author, who was noted for his patriotism, bohemian lifestyle, and generosity. In Juni 2006 it was revealed that all of Tuula Sariola's 16 books were ghost written by her friend, the journalist Ritva Sarkola.
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Håkan Nesser was awarded the 1993 Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Prize for new authors for Mind's Eye (published in Sweden as Det Grovmaskiga Nätet); he received the best novel award in 1994 FOR BORKMANN'S POINT and in 1996 for WOMAN WITH BIRTHMARK. In 1999 he was awarded the Crime Writers of Scandinavia's Glass Key Award for the best crime novel of the year for Carambole. Nesser lives in Sweden and London.
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Carl Valdemar Jussi Henry Adler-Olsen (born August 2, 1950) is a Danish writer of crime fiction, as well as a publisher, editor and entrepreneur. Jussi Adler-Olsen made his debut as a non-fiction writer in 1984, and as a fiction writer in 1997. Born in Copenhagen, he was the youngest of four children and the only boy. Son of the successful sexologist and psychiatrist Henry Olsen, he spent his childhood with his family in doctors' official residences at several mental hospitals across Denmark. In his late teens, he played in a couple of pop groups as lead guitarist. He graduated from high school in Rødovre (1970), and studied medicine, sociology (passed History of Modern Politics) and film making (exam.art.) until 1978. After a manager career, he began to write full-time in 1995. Adler-Olsen's novels have been sold in more than 40 languages. Outside of Denmark he has enjoyed particular success in Norway, Germany and the Netherlands being a frequent visitor on the top of the bestseller lists e.g. on the New York Times Paperback bestseller list. Adler-Olsen's books have been on the bestseller lists in numerous other countries including Austria, Iceland, France, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
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Jo Nesbø's books have sold more than twenty million copies worldwide, and have been translated into forty-seven languages. His Harry Hole novels include The Bat, The Redbreast, Nemesis, The Devil's Star, The Redeemer, The Snowman, The Leopard, Phantom, and Police, and he is the author of Headhunters and several children's books. He has received the Glass Key Award for best Nordic crime novel. He is also a musician, songwriter, and economist and lives in Oslo.
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Jørn Lier Horst (born February 27, 1970), is a Norwegian author of crime fiction and a former Senior Investigating Officer at Vestfold Police district. He made his debut in 2004 with the crime novel Key Witness, based on a true murder story.
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Karin Fossum is the author of the internationally successful Inspector Konrad Sejer crime series. Her recent honors include a Gumshoe Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for mystery/thriller. She lives in a small town in southeastern Norway.
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Karl Stig-Erland 'Stieg' Larsson (15 August 1954 - 9 November 2004) was a Swedish journalist and writer. He is best known for writing the ‘Millennium trilogy‘ of crime novels, which were published posthumously. Larsson lived much of his life in Stockholm and worked there in the field of journalism and as an independent researcher of right-wing extremism. He was the second best-selling author in the world for 2008, behind Khaled Hosseini. The third novel in the Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, became the most sold book in the United States in 2010 according to Publishers Weekly By March 2015, his series had sold 80 million copies worldwide.
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Helene Tursten (born in Gothenburg in 1954) 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.
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Eva Elisabeth ‘Liza' Marklund (born 9 September 1962) is a Swedish journalist and crime writer. She was born in Pålmark near Piteå, Norrbotten. Her novels, most of which feature the fictional character Annika Bengtzon, a newspaper journalist, have been published in thirty languages. Marklund is the co-owner of Sweden's third largest publishing house, Piratförlaget and a columnist in the Swedish tabloid Expressen. She is also a Unicef ambassador. The Postcard Killers, a crime thriller written in collaboration with American bestselling author James Patterson, is Marklund's twelfth book. It was published on January 27, 2010, in Sweden, and became number one on the Swedish bestseller list in February 2010. It was published on 16 August 2010 in the United States. At the end of August, it reached number one in the New York Times best-seller list, making Liza Marklund the second Swedish author (the first one being Stieg Larsson with the Millennium Trilogy) ever to reach the number one spot. Marklund lives in Spain with her husband Mikael. Since her debut in 1995, Liza Marklund has written eight crime novels and co-authored two documentary novels with Maria Eriksson and one non-fiction book about female leadership with Lotta Snickare. Marklund's crime novels featuring crime reporter Annika Bengtzon have become international bestsellers. She won the ‘Poloni Prize' (Polonipriset) 1998 for ‘Best Swedish Crime Novel by a Female Writer' and ‘The Debutant Prize', (Debutantpriset) 1998 for ‘Best First Novel of the Year' with the crime novel Sprängaren (The Bomber), published in 1998. Marklund was named Author of the Year in Sweden 1999 by the Swedish trade union SKTF, won the radio network RixFM's Swedish Literary Prize in 2007, and was selected the fifteenth most popular woman in Sweden of 2003 and the fourth most popular woman in Sweden of 2004 in a yearly survey with 1,000 participants, conducted by ICA-kuriren, a publication published by a Swedish supermarket chain. Her books have been number one bestsellers in all five Nordic countries. In 2002 and 2003, two of Liza Marklund's crime novels were listed on the international bestseller lists by the online magazine Publishing Trends, Prime Time ranking #13 and The Red Wolf ranking #12. In Scandinavia and Germany, her non-fiction novels have become the center of a heated controversy.
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Karin Alvtegen was born in 1966 in a small town in Sweden. Her first novel, GUILT (Skuld), was published in Sweden in 1998, to rave reviews. Two years later MISSING (Saknad) won Scandinavia's distinguished Glass Key award, for Best Crime Novel of the Year. BETRAYAL (Svek) (2005) was shortlisted for another Glass Key, and SHAME (Skam) was a finalist for one of England's prestigious CWA ‘Dagger' awards, for Best International Crime Novel of 2006. She has been called ‘a modern-day Strindberg' and ‘Sweden's Queen of Crime.' (Both SHAME and BETRAYAL are coming from Felony & Mayhem.) Karin Alvtegen is the great-niece of Astrid Lindgren, author of the ‘Pippi Longstocking' books. Her novels have been published in 25 countries, and MISSING has been made into a British television miniseries. Alvtegen lives with her husband and children in Stockholm.
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Poul Ørum (December 23, 1919, Nykøbing Mors, Denmark - December 27, 1997, Fanø, Denmark) was one of Denmark's leading writers. He worked as a laborer, farmer, sailor, actor, and journalist, is the author of over twenty-five books, and was awarded the Danish Poe Association's prize for the best crime novel of the year.
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Henning Mankell (3 February 1948 - 5 October 2015) is author of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander series and the critically acclaimed Chronicler of the Winds. Henning Mankell's books have been published in thirty-six countries with over 25 million copies in print worldwide.
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Maj Sjöwall (25 September 1935 – 29 April 2020) 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. Maj Sjöwall was the daughter of Margit Trobäck and CEO Will Sjöwall. After completing school Sjöwall was employed at Åhlén & Åkerlunds publishers between 1954 and 1959, Wahlström & Widstrands publishers between 1959 and 1961 and then Esselte publishers between 1961 and 1963. In 2013, Sjöwall received the fifth Lenin Award. After the death of Wahlöö, she continued working as a translator, writing columns for magazines and as an author. With Danish author Bjarne Nielsen she in 1989 published the book Dansk Intermezzo. In 1990, she and author Tomas Ross published the thriller Kvinnan som liknade Greta Garbo. Sjöwall married her first husband, magazine editor Gunnar Isaksson, in 1955, and they divorced in 1958. She married again in 1959 to photographer Hans J. Flodquist; they divorced in 1962. Sjöwall had a 13-year relationship with Wahlöö, which lasted until his death in 1975. Sjöwall died on 29 April 2020, at the age of 84 after a prolonged illness. Per Fredrik Wahlöö (5 August 1926 – 22 June 1975) – 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 (a translation of Den skrattande polisen, originally published in 1968) won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Novel. Wahlöö and Sjöwall also wrote novels separately. Wahlöö was born in Tölö parish, Kungsbacka Municipality, Halland. Following school, he worked as a crime reporter from 1946 onwards. After long trips around the world he returned to Sweden and started working as a journalist again.Maj Sjöwall (25 September 1935 – 29 April 2020) 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. Maj Sjöwall was the daughter of Margit Trobäck and CEO Will Sjöwall. After completing school Sjöwall was employed at Åhlén & Åkerlunds publishers between 1954 and 1959, Wahlström & Widstrands publishers between 1959 and 1961 and then Esselte publishers between 1961 and 1963. In 2013, Sjöwall received the fifth Lenin Award. After the death of Wahlöö, she continued working as a translator, writing columns for magazines and as an author. With Danish author Bjarne Nielsen she in 1989 published the book Dansk Intermezzo. In 1990, she and author Tomas Ross published the thriller Kvinnan som liknade Greta Garbo. Sjöwall married her first husband, magazine editor Gunnar Isaksson, in 1955, and they divorced in 1958. She married again in 1959 to photographer Hans J. Flodquist; they divorced in 1962. Sjöwall had a 13-year relationship with Wahlöö, which lasted until his death in 1975. Sjöwall died on 29 April 2020, at the age of 84 after a prolonged illness. Per Fredrik Wahlöö (5 August 1926 – 22 June 1975) – 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 (a translation of Den skrattande polisen, originally published in 1968) won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Novel. Wahlöö and Sjöwall also wrote novels separately. Wahlöö was born in Tölö parish, Kungsbacka Municipality, Halland. Following school, he worked as a crime reporter from 1946 onwards. After long trips around the world he returned to Sweden and started working as a journalist again.He had a thirteen-year relationship with Sjöwall but they never married, as he already was married. Both were Marxists. Wahlöö's career in journalism started in 1947 in Sydsvenskan in Malmö and continued in 1949 at the new Evening Post, where he was a permanent employee, to 1953. He moved onto freelance work in the 1950s, writing theater reviews and film articles for various newspapers including for the newspapers in Norrköping before moving to Stockholm. By May 1964 Per Wahlöö's journalistic path was said to be complete. Subsequently, he was involved in the New Left journal Tidsignal (Time Signal) (1965–1970) where he was part of the editorial board, among others including the writer Kurt Salomonson. A leftist tendency and a dramatically effective narrative distinguished Wahlöö's early novels about power and the right, for example A Necessary Action from 1962, which depicts Franco's Spain, and his Dictatorship series. From the mid-1960s, he wrote together with life companion Maj Sjöwall a series of detective novels with criminal investigator Martin Beck as protagonist. Several of them have been filmed. A Swedish TV film series began running in 1997, with Peter Haber as Martin Beck. The series was bought by the BBC in 2015, and shown in the United Kingdom with English subtitles. Per Wahlöö died in Malmö in 1975, after an unsuccessful operation on the pancreas, necessitated by cancer. He is interned in the memorial garden at Malmo Sankt Pauli's central cemetery.
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Peter Alexander Haber (born 12 December 1952) is a Swedish actor. His father was German, his mother Swedish. He grew up in Skåne, Sweden, and in Remscheid, Germany. In 1987 he was hired by the Stockholm City Theatre where he was active until 1994. At the 29th Guldbagge Awards, he was nominated for the Best Actor award for his role in Sune's Summer. The most famous roles that Haber has played are the father Rudolf in the series Sune, Carl Hamilton in Fiendens fiende (Enemy's Enemy) and Martin Beck from 1997 onwards in the eponymous film series. He is also known for his role in the 2009 film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Haber is in a relationship with actress Lena T. Hansson.
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Rolf Holger Lassgård (born 29 March 1955) is a Swedish actor. He is known for his many roles in crime dramas. Lassgård was born in Östersund, Jämtland. A keen amateur ice hockey player in his youth, he also joined theatre teacher Ingemar Lind's Institute for the Performing Arts in the village of Storhögen outside Östersund. He then attended the Stage School in Malmö from 1975 to 1978. There Lassgård met the director Peter Oskarson and joined his Skånska Teatern theatre company at Landskrona, where he remained for four years, making his first television appearance as "Puck" in its production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1980. Lassgård followed Oskarson to the Folkteatern company in Gävle in 1982, giving a series of highly acclaimed performances. For his role in Önskas he was nominated for the award for Best Actor in a leading role at the 27th Guldbagge Awards. The following year he won the award at the 28th Guldbagge Awards for his role in Night of the Orangutan. Lassgård had various small film roles, but his breakout role was Kjell-Åke Andersson's 1992 film Min store tjocke far ("My big fat father") for which he won the 1992 Guldbagge Award as best male actor. He has gone on to play in a wide range of roles in films, notably as policeman Gunvald Larsson in a series of films made in 1993–94, based on the Martin Beck novels, and starring Gösta Ekman, and as Kurt Wallander in the SVT TV-movie adaptations of the Henning Mankell novels from 1994 to 2007. Since then, he has also played a crime psychologist as the titular character in the crime drama television series Sebastian Bergman. From 2011 to 2015, Lassgård has appeared in Seasons 2, 3, and 4 of the TV Norwegian comedy series Dag, playing a free-thinking, free-wheeling therapist. In 2013 he starred in the crime series The Death of a Pilgrim, a dramatic retelling of the assassination of Olof Palme and fictionalised account of the discovery of his killer in the 2010s. He had the leading role as Ove in the 2015 film A Man Called Ove, which won him another Guldbagge Award for best male actor. Lassgård married actress Birgitta Lassgård in 1989; they had been a couple since 1982 and have three children. They divorced in 2021.
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Jan Krister Allan Henriksson (born 12 November 1946) is a Swedish actor. He is best known for playing Kurt Wallander in the television films based on the novels by Henning Mankell. Henriksson was born in Grisslehamn, Norrtälje Municipality, Sweden and is the son of the fishmonger Allan Henriksson and Gunvor (née Sjöblom). He passed his studentexamen in 1967 and attended Statens scenskola in Malmö from 1968 to 1971. Henriksson worked at the Norrköping City Theatre in 1971, Stockholm City Theatre from 1972 and TV-teatern from 1980 to 1983. He made his breakthrough in 1973 at Stockholm City Theatre with the lead role in Peer Gynt. In 1993 he joined the cast of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. In 1997 he was honoured with the Eugene O'Neill Award. He has twice received the Swedish Film Award Guldbagge Award for the best male lead—in 1998 for his portrayal of a cancer-stricken actor in the film Veranda för en tenor (Waiting for the Tenor) and in 2005 for Sex, hope and love. Both films were directed by Lisa Ohlin. He also received the Swedish Theatre Award Guldmasken for the one-man play Doktor Glass of Hjalmar Söderberg in 2007. Henriksson branched into business as co-owner of the now defunct Vasateatern (The Vasa Theatre) a private theatre focussing on classic farce and comedy in Stockholm, and taught Scenic Design at the Stockholm School of Theater. He also runs the film production company Tåbb Ltd together with his partner Cecilia Nilsson and he is co-owner of the audiobook publisher Svenska Ljud Audioförlag together with Carlson Invest Ltd, Frekvens Produktion Ltd and the actors Katarina Ewerlöf and Johan Rabaeus. Henriksson is married to the actress Cecilia Nilsson since the 1980s. They lived together in Stockholm for decades but had since chosen to live separately. He has two daughters and a son.
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Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Born in Belfast and raised primarily in Reading, Berkshire, Branagh trained at RADA in London and served as its president from 2015 to 2024. His accolades include an Academy Award, four BAFTAs, two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Olivier Award. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in 2012, and was given Freedom of the City in his native Belfast in 2018. In 2020, he was ranked in 20th place on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
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