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Anderson, Lin
Lin (Linda) Anderson was born in Greenock, western Scotland. Her parents were of Scottish and Irish descent. Her father was a detective in the CID, and Anderson read Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie from an early age. She has attended several universities in Scotland. In the 1980s, she lived in Nigeria for a few years. It was not until the end of the 1990s, after she had raised three children...
Maj Söwall and Per Wahlöö
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Wahlöö, Per
Per Fredrik Wahlöö was a Swedish author born in Kungsbacka. His father was a newspaper editor in Lund. Per Wahlöö passed his baccalaureate in 1946 and was employed at Sydsvenska Dagbladet and Kvällsposten 1947–54 and FiB 1954–62. He lived with his partner Maj Sjöwall from 1963 until his death in 1975.
Per Wahlöö is best known for a series of ten novels known as Roman om ett brott (1965–75, Novel a...