Swedish Swedish Swedish Crime ÅSA Crime Scenes LARSSON The northern and western portions of the province of Västergötland belong to Crime 2.0 the Central Swedish lowland. Scenes The books about Commissioner Wallander cover a different aspect Scenes of the idyllic small town of Ystad. Introduction Photo: Fredrik Broman NINNI Introduction ÅSA (b. 1972) Although not very many murders are committed in Sweden, the Swedish LARSSON SCHULMAN Photo: Florian Plag KRISTINA crime novel has become a specialty with a worldwide reputation in Somewhere between Kerstin Ekman, Camilla Läckberg Although few murders are actually committed in Sweden, the Swedish APPELQVIST (b. 1968) and Liza Marklund we find Ninni Schulman, who has just a short space of time. From Gotland in the east to Fjällbacka in the HENNINGThe university setting takes up a lot of space in Kristina writtenÅKE five books in her series taking place in the crime novel has become a modern classic and has gained a worldwide MANKELLAppelqvist’s classical whodunit (1948-2015) novels, which take place VärmlandEDWARDSON province. The series started (b. with 1953) ‘The Girl west, from Ystad in the south to Kiruna in the north, the country can be at the University of Skövde in Västergötland province. with Snow in Her Hair’ (2010) and centres on journalist reputation in just a short space of time. From Gotland in the east to Of all the fictitious police inspectors currently at work, MagdalenaInspector Erik Hansson, Winter a lives new in single Gothenburg, mother wholistens returns to AmongKurt Wallander the knowledgeable is the doyen: academics a gloomy, there opera-loving is also a man modern jazz and loves cooking, especially Italian food. discovered from a different perspective: via fictional murder investigations plethora of intrigues, and Kristina Appelqvist uses the to the small town of Hagfors for a job as an editor. Fjällbacka in the west, from Ystad in the south up to Kiruna in the north, in the mud lands of the province Skåne, who frequently TheHe is novels talented, are richabout and today’s well-dressed, rural problems, but works but inNinni where the focus is not only on the crime but also on the Swedish welfare wholeasks himself scale from where petty Sweden rivalry is toheading. magnificent He lives research in the a carefully depicted and surprisingly credible police the country is seen in a new perspective: via murder investigations projects and literary riddles. She is clearly influenced Schulman also suggestively describes the extensive small town of Ystad in the very south of Sweden, is localcommunity. forests Thewhere officers houses are are a fewmixed and bunch far between. of everyday modelwhere andthe focushuman is psychology.not only on the crime but also on the Swedish bydivorced Agatha and Christie has a and daughter Dorothy who Sayers will eventually as well as follow by cops who struggle patiently in a dozen books to put a Swedishin his footsteps 1950s authorand become Maria aLang, police and officer uses twoherself. female stop to the worst kinds of criminality: serial murders, welfare model and human psychology. protagonists,In the course researcherof ten novels Helena and one Waller novella, and UniversityKurt sex killings, showdowns in the underworld and racist PresidentWallander Emma has solved Lundgren. many Appelqvist’scases that in latest one waybook, or ‘The acts. The day-to-day lives and personal development The Swedish crime novel phenomenon has a long lineage, but today’s LARS KEPLER Fourthanother Pact’ describe (2018), a Sweden deals with in transition, University cases of Skövde’s that begin of individual officers are given plenty of scope. KERSTIN opportunities within international archaeology research. storiesThe Swedish have largely crime novelfallen wasout ofin thefact shabby born over overcoat a century of Inspector ago with Martin EKMAN in his immediate surroundings but often branch far out into the world. An added ingredient is Henning Mankell’s Beck,the publication the protagonist of The inStockholm The Story Detective of a Crime in, 1893,the legendary written under ten-book empathic description of the ageing of a lonely man. seriesthe pseudonym by Maj Sjöwall of Prins and Pierre. Per Wahlöö. Their first book,Roseanna (1965), INGRID marked the arrival of the modern Swedish crime novel, rich in social INGRID (b. 1949) The original golden age of the crime genre in Sweden was the HEDSTRÖM HEDSTRÖMCAMILLA criticism and portraying ordinary police characters trying to deal with a Stationed in Brussels, Ingrid Hedström worked for years 1950s, when Stieg Trenter’s Stockholm series competed with Maria KATARINA asLÄCKBERG Europe correspondent for (b.Swedish 1974) newspaper Dagens crumbling society. WENNSTAM JENS Nyheter.One of Sweden’s The experiences bestselling laid crime the foundation writers is Camilla for her Läckberg,first LARS LAPIDUS Lang’s ‘feel-good’ novels set in both Stockholm and Bergslagen, KEPLER LEIF G.W. SOFIE crime series, six books that take place in the fictional Approximately 87 per cent NINNI PERSSON STIEG SARENBRANDT who moved the Swedish detective story closer to the chick lit genre SCHULMAN LARSSON Belgian city of Villette, describing both European history of the province of Värmland and numerous other crime writers were active. ARNE in her nine novels. She writes both about Inspector Patrik Hedström, DAHL ANDERS BÖRGE and the complex Belgian legal system, shown through is covered by vast forests. Their work was continued by Henning Mankell, whose character Kurt MICHAEL HANS JENSROSLUND & HELLSTRÖM who pursues traditional police investigations, and about the woman KRISTINA lawyer Martine Poirot (!). Ingrid Hedström, avid reader of HJORTH AND ROSENFELDT LAPIDUSLIZA he lives with, Erika Falck, who always gets involved but can do CAMILLA LEIFOHLSSON G.W. VIVECA PERSSON STIEGMARKLUND crime novels herself, has since continued with three books Wallander,But today’s acrop divorced of authors police is inspector infinitely operating larger. Sweden’s in the province current of Skåne LÄCKBERG CHRISTOFFER STEN things that police are not allowed to. Their life together is given HÅKAN LARSSON Photo: Gösta Reiland The modern port city of NESSER ARNECARLSSON about a Swedish diplomat, Astrid Sammils, with a family HÅKAN DAHL ANDERS BÖRGE considerable attention in the books, not least all the problems faced Gothenburg portrayed in incrime the southfiction of phenomenonSweden, raised has the largely literary been quality shaken of theout genreof the andshabby already KRISTINA NESSER ROSLUND AND HELLSTRÖM farmby families in idyllic with Dalarna. young children.The most They recent live book, in the ‘Firebreak’ idyllic seaside town the books of Edwardsson. APPELQVIST MARIKRISTINA OHLSSON LIZA (2018),of Fjällbacka, came aeerily fishing close port to realon the life westduring coast, the Swedishwhere Läckberg often inovercoat 1991 began of Inspector to wonder Martin where Beck, the the Swedish protagonist society in wasThe Storyheading. of aKerstin CAMILLA JUNGSTEDT MARKLUND LÄCKBERG forestbases herfires murder in the storiessummer on ofhistorical 2018. events. Photo: Dick Gillberg Ekman,Crime, the former legendary member ten-book of the Swedishseries by AcademyMaj Sjöwall and and one Per of Wahlöö.Sweden’s ANNA JANSSON MONS MARI mostRoseanna important from 1965fictional marked authors, the arrivalhas also of thewritten modern a number Swedish of crime KALLENTOFT JUNGSTEDT HÅKAN ÖSTLUNDH The granite archipelago of Bohuslän outside novels,novel, rich where in social Blackwater criticism (1993) and portrayingholds a special fairly position.ordinary characters of Gothenburg where Inspector Hedström’s village Fjällbacka is described by Camilla Läckberg. ÅKE trying to deal with a crumbling society. EDWARDSON JOHAN THEORIN HÅKAN The texts in the exhibition are written ÖSTLUNDHin cooperation with Lotta Olsson, crime fiction critic at the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. Titles in quotation marks are HENNING not yet published in English. JOHAN MANKELL THEORIN The texts in the exhibition are written by Lotta Olsson, crime fiction critic at the Photo: Henrik Trygg Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter MARI (b. 1962) LARS JUNGSTEDT MARIMari Jungstedt has produced fourteen books about KEPLER JUNGSTEDTInspector Knutas and his colleagues (b. 1962) in the Visby police force in Gotland, Sweden’s foremost holiday The established literary couple behind this pseudonym, Mari Jungstedt has produced twelve books about island. Tourists enjoy the sandy beaches and ancient Alexander Ahndoril (b. 1967) and Alexandra Ahndoril Inspector Knutas and his colleagues in the Visby town walls, handicrafts and local delicacies during (b. 1966), made a dramatic breakthrough in 2009. So police force in Gotland, Sweden’s foremost holiday LARS summer. Jungstedt often makes reference to its far, they have written five novels about the Finno-Swedish island. Tourists enjoy the sandy beaches and ancient history, its adjoining island Fårö, where Ingmar KEPLERpolice inspector Joona Linna, a calm figure at the centre town walls, handicrafts and local delicacies during of the storm, and his young colleague, Saga Bauer, a slip Bergman lived, and the political focal point of the The established literary couple behind this pseudonym, summer. Jungstedt often makes reference to its of a girl who possesses almost supernatural powers. The Swedish summer, Almedalen Week. She contrasts the Alexander Ahndoril (b. 1967) and Alexandra Ahndoril history, its adjoining island Fårö, where Ingmar pair is