Maj Sjöwall (1935–2020)
Teoksen Roseanna tekijä
Tietoja tekijästä
Writer and journalist Maj Sjöwall was born in Sweden in 1935. She was a reporter and art director at several newspapers and magazines. From 1959 to 1961, she was an editor with the publishing house Wahlström and Widstrad. She met Per Wahlöö in 1961 and they married the following year. Together näytä lisää they wrote all ten novels in the Martin Beck Police Mystery series from 1965 to 1975. In 1971, The Laughing Policeman (a translation of Den Skrattande Polisen) won an Edgar Award for Best Novel. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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(eng) Do not combine this page with any of the pages that contain both Sjöwall and Wahlöö, or with Per Wahlöö's individual author page. (See "Who Should/Shouldn't Get Combined" on the Author wiki page.) Thank you.
Sarjat
Tekijän teokset
Ultimi casi per Martin Beck: L'uomo sul tetto-La camera chiusa-Un assassino di troppo-Terroristi (2012) 2 kappaletta
Martin Beck indaga a Stoccolma: Il poliziotto che ride - L'autopompa fantasma - Omicidio al Savoy (2010) 2 kappaletta
Roman om ett brott 1 kappale
Roseanna (Rivages/Noir t. 687) 1 kappale
Priskutnež 1 kappale
Gyilkos a háztetőn 1 kappale
Suljettu huone 1 kappale
Mannen på balkongen roman om ett brott 1 kappale
The Martin Beck Series: Books 1–4 1 kappale
השוטר הצוחק 1 kappale
Associated Works
Het Beste Boek 150: Narcose / Ben / De vrouw die op Greta Garbo leek / Gorilla's in de mist (1991) — Tekijä — 2 kappaletta
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Kanoninen nimi
- Sjöwall, Maj
- Syntymäaika
- 1935-09-25
- Kuolinaika
- 2020-04-29
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- Zweden
- Syntymäpaikka
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Kuolinpaikka
- Landskrona, Sweden
- Kuolinsyy
- COPD
- Asuinpaikat
- Ven, Sweden
- Ammatit
- editor (Wahlström and Widstrand)
Writer
translator
journalist
crime novelist
art director - Suhteet
- Wahlöö, Per (partner)
Wahlöö, Claes (zwager) - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Rivertonklubbens internasjonale ærespris (2006)
- Agentti
- Salomonsson Agency
- Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Maj Sjöwall grew up in one of the chain of hotels in Stockholm managed by her father. She was a 27-year-old journalist and art director, and a single mother with a small daughter, when she met Per Wahlöö, a prominent political journalist and former crime reporter nearly a decade her senior. They fell in love, moved in together, had two children, and talked about literature – including the possibility of writing books together. The result of their research and writing collaboration was Roseanna (1965), a detective novel featuring Martin Beck. It was the first in a series of ten novels produced over ten years. In 1971, The Laughing Policeman won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America and was adapted into a Hollywood film. Sjöwall and Wahlöö also wrote novels separately. Although they never married, their relationship lasted until his death in 1975.
- Erotteluhuomautus
- Do not combine this page with any of the pages that contain both Sjöwall and Wahlöö, or with Per Wahlöö's individual author page. (See "Who Should/Shouldn't Get Combined" on the Author wiki page.) Thank you.
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Die Tote im Götakanal: Ein Kommissar-Beck-Roman… Tekijä: Henning Mankell
Die überarbeitete Version ist um Längen besser als das alte Buch. Trotzdem gefällt mir hier die Verfilmung so viel besser, dass ich diese Serie als Bücher wohl nicht weiter verfolgen werde...
A good read.This detective story is set in Malmo, where a powerful industrialist is shot during an after-dinner speech. There are repercussions both locally and internationally, and Chief Inspector Martin Beck is called in to spearhead the investigation. He is not alone in his efforts however, and it is one of the books's strengths that several of the Malmo team are as effectively described as Beck himself is. The boredom as well as the excitement of the chase seem authentically described. What becomes clear is that the victim is mired in all kinds of major and more minor wrongdoing, while the killer might well attract more sympathy.
I couldn't decide if the translation was stilted, or whether it accurately reflected the way the book was written in Swedish. But I rather liked it. A rather 'plain speaking' style that suits the material and characters well. I'll go on to read the other books in the series.… (lisätietoja)
I couldn't decide if the translation was stilted, or whether it accurately reflected the way the book was written in Swedish. But I rather liked it. A rather 'plain speaking' style that suits the material and characters well. I'll go on to read the other books in the series.… (lisätietoja)
Chief Inspector Martin Beck has just returned to work aftef a long convalescence, and the job he's given is on the face of it a little dull. His colleagues meanwhile are on the trail of a female bank robber, and seeking to end the apparently never-ending stream of such robberies. The two apparently unrelated cases eventually converge. Justice is done - in a roundabout way - and also not done.
We meet some interesting characters along the way: Mauritzon, the professional crook; Monita, the amateur crook; Rhea Nielsen, a possible love-interest for Beck, as well as a whole cast of police and crriminals.
Underlying it all is the authors' contempt for modern Swedish society, which doesn't always ring true. But the story convinces, especially in the ending, when not all loose ends are neatly tied up. A good read.… (lisätietoja)
We meet some interesting characters along the way: Mauritzon, the professional crook; Monita, the amateur crook; Rhea Nielsen, a possible love-interest for Beck, as well as a whole cast of police and crriminals.
Underlying it all is the authors' contempt for modern Swedish society, which doesn't always ring true. But the story convinces, especially in the ending, when not all loose ends are neatly tied up. A good read.… (lisätietoja)
De politiemoordenaar.
Blijft gezellig en ontspannend. Toch ook niet slecht dat het de voorlaatste is in de reeks (de kritiek op de Zweedse samenleving in de jaren zestig en zeventig krijgt af en toe teveel aandacht)
Blijft gezellig en ontspannend. Toch ook niet slecht dat het de voorlaatste is in de reeks (de kritiek op de Zweedse samenleving in de jaren zestig en zeventig krijgt af en toe teveel aandacht)
Listat
Books Read in 2016 (10)
Edgar Award (1)
Scandicrime (2)
Palkinnot
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Tilastot
- Teokset
- 54
- Also by
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- Jäseniä
- 13,429
- Suosituimmuussija
- #1,729
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 3.8
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 422
- ISBN:t
- 872
- Kielet
- 23
- Kuinka monen suosikki
- 25
