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Portrait image of Pierre Boileau Pierre Boileau (left) with Pierre Ayraud Photo: Jean-Claude Deutsch/Paris Match / Getty Images (1977)

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Boileau, Pierre

Pierre Boileau was one half of the partnership (and the brand) Boileau-Narcejac, which can best be described as French crime writing institution. The other half was Pierre Ayraud (writing under the pseudonym Thomas Narcejac). Both authors wrote detective novels both independently and together, many of which were made into popular films. They were also prominent figures on the French literary...

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Portrait image of Mariette Lindstein Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2016)

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Lindstein, Mariette

Swedish author and lecturer, born as Mariette Westam in Halmstad, where she also grew up. As a child, she wrote ghost stories, and when she was in her teens she wrote short stories which she got published in magazines for teenagers. After finishing upper-secondary school, she became interested in scientology and moved to Malmö in 1978 together with her boyfriend to go on some of the courses ...

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