Åke Edwardson

Åke Edwardson (2008)

Åke Edwardson (born March 10, 1953 in Vrigstad south of Jönköping ) is a Swedish author of crime novels .

Life

Edwardson is one of the most successful Swedish crime writers, alongside Henning Mankell , Liza Marklund , Sjöwall / Wahlöö , Håkan Nesser , Arne Dahl and Stieg Larsson . The latter, who, like Edwardson, was a journalist, he knew very well personally. Åke Edwardson lives in Gothenburg .

Before starting his actual writing career, Edwardson worked for over 20 years as a journalist on behalf of the United Nations in the Near and Middle East and Cyprus and as a freelance journalist in other parts of the world, writing on sports, travel, literature and foreign policy. He was the co-author of two basic textbooks on journalism . He trained journalists at the University of Gothenburg .

Edwardson has been writing detective novels since the mid-1990s. All of his novels about Commissioner Erik Winter in Gothenburg, Sweden, have also been published in German. Åke Edwardson regularly reads in Germany when the German editions of his books are published. Åke Edwardson speaks German, but Oliver Mommsen regularly reads in German .

In an interview with SPIEGEL online on June 21, 2008, Edwardson stated that after 10 episodes around his protagonist Winter, he would no longer write any more crime novels. After a four-year break, however, further commissioner winter novels were published from 2012 onwards.

Awards

• 1995 Swedish detective award - Bästa svenska debut for Till allt som varit dött (German: Allem That Had Died . List, Munich 2003)
• 1997 Swedish crime award - Bästa svenska crime novel for Dans med en ängel (German dance with the angel . Econ & List, Munich 1999)
• 1999 Landsbygdens Författarpris
• 2001 Swedish Crime Award - Bästa svenska crime novel for Himlen är en plats på jorden (Eng. Heaven on Earth . Claassen, Munich 2002)
• 2004 Radio Bremen crime prize
• 2010 German Audio Book Prize in the category The Special Audio Book / Best Crime for his book Heaven on Earth , read by Matthias Brandt , directed by Wolf-Dieter Fruck (Random House Audio, Cologne)

Works

Private Investigator Jonathan Wide series

• 1995 Till allt som varit dött
  • Everything that had died , German by Angelika Kutsch; Hamburg: List 2003, ISBN 978-3-548-68054-5 .
• 1996 Gå ut min själ
  • Go out, my heart , from Angelika Kutsch; Berlin: List 2004, ISBN 978-3-548-68064-4 .

Commissioner Erik Winter series

1. 1997 Dans med en ängel
   • Dance with the Angel , German by Wolfdietrich Müller; Berlin: Ullstein 2001, ISBN 978-3-548-60186-1 .
2. 1998 Rop från långt avstånd
   • The shadow woman , German by Wolfdietrich Müller; Berlin: Claassen 2000, ISBN 978-3-546-00235-6 .
3. 1999 Sol och skugga
   • The swapped face , German by Angelika Kutsch, Berlin: Claassen 2001, ISBN 978-3-546-00240-0 .
4. 2000 Låt det aldrig ta slut
   • In all eternity , German by Angelika Kutsch; Berlin: Claassen 2002, ISBN 978-3-546-00247-9 .
5. 2001 Himlen är en plats på jorden
   • Heaven on Earth , German by Angelika Kutsch; Berlin: Claassen 2002, ISBN 3-546-00294-6 .
6. 2002 sails av sten
   • Sails made of stone , German by Angelika Kutsch, Berlin: Claassen 2003, ISBN 978-3-546-00296-7 .
7. 2005 rum number 10
   • Room no.10 , German by Angelika Kutsch, Berlin: Claassen, 2006, ISBN 978-3-546-00295-0 .
8. 2006 Vänaste land
   • Red Sea , German by Angelika Kutsch, Berlin: Ullstein 2008, ISBN 978-3-550-08711-0 .
9. 2007 Nästan död man
   • Toter Mann , German by Angelika Kutsch, Berlin: Ullstein 2009, ISBN 978-3-550-08712-7 .
10. 2008 The sista vintern
    • The last winter , German by Angelika Kutsch, Berlin: Ullstein 2010, ISBN 978-3-550-08713-4 .
11. 2012 Huset vid världens ände
    • The dark house , German by Angelika Kutsch, Berlin: Ullstein 2014, ISBN 978-3-550-08027-2 .
12. 2013 Marconi Park
    • Marconipark , German by Angelika Kutsch, Berlin: Ullstein 2015, ISBN 978-3-550-08028-9 .
13. 2016 Vintermörker
    • Winterdunkel , German by Angelika Kutsch, Berlin: Ullstein 2018, ISBN 978-3-548-29170-3 .

Others

• 1999 Genomresa
  • The last evening of the season , German by Susanne Dahmann; Berlin: List 2004, ISBN 3-548-60402-1 .
• 2003 jukebox
  • Der Jukebox-Mann , German by Angelika Kutsch, Berlin: Claassen 2004, ISBN 3-546-00358-6 .
• 2005 Samurajsommar
  • Samurai summer , German by Angelika Kutsch, Hamburg: Carlsen 2006, ISBN 978-3-551-55441-3 .
• 2005 Winterland (story collection)
  • Winterland , German by Susanne Dahmann, Berlin: List 2003, ISBN 978-3-548-68069-9 .
• 2006 Drakmånad
  • Dragon Month , German by Angelika Kutsch, Berlin: List 2009, ISBN 978-3-548-60788-7 .
• 2010 Svalorna flyger sågt att ingen length can se dem
  • The swallows fly so high that you can hardly see them , German by Angelika Kutsch, Berlin: Ullstein 2016, ISBN 978-3-550-08869-8 .
• 2011 Möt mig i Estepona
  • The Rache of the Chameleon , German by Angelika Kutsch, Berlin: Ullstein 2013, ISBN 978-3-8437-0352-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ spiegel.de

Web links

• Literature by and about Åke Edwardson in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Åke Edwardson at perlentaucher.de
• Official website (Swedish)
• Åke Edwardson on booksection.de
• Åke Edwardson on www.krimi-couch.de
• Åke Edwardson on www.schwedenkrimi.de