Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2022)
Sample of authors
Truc, Olivier
The French author Olivier Truc is a journalist and war correspondent. Truc has been working for Le Monde in Scandinavia and the Baltic states since 1994. He lives in Stockholm with his Swedish wife.
During a visit to his wife’s native Västerbotten in the north of Sweden he became interested in the Sami people and began to research their history. After a few non-fiction books and television do...
Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2014)
Sample of authors
Beckett, Simon
English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at home. Simon Beckett was born in a working-class family in Sheffield, and graduated with a B.A. in English from Sheffield Polytechnic (now Hallam University) and subsequently gained an M.A. at Newcastle University. He then worked for several years as a janitor and for a whi...