Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2008)
Sample of authors
Nesbø, Jo
The Norwegian, Jo Nesbø, is one of Norway’s most appreciated and successful crime writers. He was born in Oslo as Jon Nesbø, but when he was 16 he formally changed his first name to Jo, which was what his parents had originally thought of calling him. Already when he was very small, the family moved to Molde where he grew up and attended school. His mother was a librarian and read a lot, his fat...
Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2023)
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Carlsson, Christoffer
Christoffer Carlsson grew up a rather lonely child in the small community of Skedala "in the gap between Halmstad and Simlångsdalen along national trunk road 25". His mother is a police clerk and his father a former car mechanic. Books were not common in the house when he was a boy. He discovered them on his own by means of the local mobile library. "No one else knows just how cool this is," he ...