Anne Holt

Anne Holt

Anne Holt (born November 16, 1958 in Larvik ) is a Norwegian lawyer, crime writer and former Justice Minister of her country.

Life

Anne Holt studied law and for some time worked as a police lawyer and attorney . From October 25, 1996 to February 4, 1997, the Social Democrat was Norway's Minister of Justice in Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland's cabinet . Her career as an author began in the early 1990s , and she wrote two of her detective novels together with her former State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, Berit Reiss-Andersen . Like one of her main characters, Commissioner Hanne Wilhelmsen, she lives in a registered partnership with her wife, the writer and publisher Tine Kjær.

In the Guardian interview, she named the character of Detective Mary Beth Lacey (played by Tyne Daly ) from the US television series Cagney & Lacey as a key trigger to effectively think about her own crime series with a female protagonist . She also presented her top 10 historical female detective characters.

In her novel A Cold Fall (Piper 2017) she describes how much a European country can change negatively when the population feels deeply affected by Islamist terror. The complex plot takes place almost three years after the Breivik attacks .

Awards

• 1994: Riverton Prize for Salige er de som tørster (German: Blessed are the thirsty )
• 1995: Bokhandler prizes for Demonens død (German: The only child )
• 2001: Cappelenprisen

Novels

The Hanne Wilhelmsen series

• 1993 Blind Gudinne
  • Blind Goddess, translated by Gabriele Haefs; Hamburg: Rasch and Röhring 1995. ISBN 3-89136-536-5 .
• 1994 Salige he de som tørster
  • Blessed are the thirsty, translated by Gabriele Haefs; Hamburg: Rasch and Röhring 1996. ISBN 3-89136-577-2 .
• 1995 Demonens død
  • The only child, translated by Gabriele Haefs; Munich, Zurich: Piper 1998. ISBN 3-492-04011-X .
• 1997 Løvens gap (with Berit Reiss-Andersen)
  • In the sign of the lion, translated by Gabriele Haefs; Munich, Zurich: Piper 1999. ISBN 3-492-04148-5 .
• 1999 Død joker
  • The eighth commandment, translated by Gabriele Haefs; Munich, Zurich: Piper 2001. ISBN 3-492-04250-3 .
• 2000 Uten ekko (with Berit Reiss-Andersen)
  • The last meal, translated by Gabriele Haefs; Munich, Zurich: Piper 2003. ISBN 3-492-27057-3 .
• 2003 Sannheten bortenfor
  • The truth behind it, translated by Gabriele Haefs; Munich, Zurich: Piper 2004. ISBN 3-492-04609-6 .
• 2007 1222
  • The Norwegian guest, translated by Gabriele Haefs; Munich, Zurich: Piper 2008. ISBN 978-3-492-04693-0 .
• 2015 offline
  • A cold case, translated by Gabriele Haefs; Munich, Berlin, Zurich: Piper 2017. ISBN 978-3-492-05471-3 .
• 2018 I støv og aske
  • In dust and ashes, translated by Gabriele Haefs; Munich, Berlin, Zurich: Piper 2018. ISBN 978-3-492-05697-7 .

Separate title

• 1997 Mea Culpa
  • Mea Culpa, translated by Gabriele Haefs; Berlin: Orlanda 2003. ISBN 3-936937-01-X .

The Sara Zuckerman series (together with her brother Even Holt)

• 2010, flicker
  • Ventricular fibrillation, translated by Gabriele Haefs; Munich, Zurich: Piper 2011. ISBN 978-3-492-05397-6 .

• 2015, Sudden Death
  • Infarct, translated by Gabriele Haefs: Munich, Zurich: Piper 2015. ISBN 978-3-492-05603-8 .

The Vik // Stubø series

• 2001 Som he communicates
  • With cold intent, translated by Gabriele Haefs; Munich, Zurich: Piper 2002. ISBN 3-492-04423-9 .
• 2004 Det som aldri skjer
  • What never happened, translated by Gabriele Haefs; Munich, Zurich: Piper 2005. ISBN 3-492-04762-9 .
• 2006 Presidentens valg
  • The President, translated by Gabriele Haefs; Munich, Zurich: Piper 2007. ISBN 3-492-04692-4 .
• 2009 Pengemannen
  • God's number, translated by Gabriele Haefs; Munich, Zurich: Piper 2010. ISBN 978-3-492-05395-2 .
• 2012 Skyggedød
  • Schattenkind, translated by Gabriele Haefs; Munich, Zurich: Piper 2013. ISBN 978-3-492-05396-9 .

Audiobooks in German (selection)

• 2008: The Norwegian Guest , audio book Hamburg , read by Ulrike Grote , 5 CDs 386 min., ISBN 978-3-89903-635-0
• 2010: Die Gotteszahl , audio book Hamburg, Osterwold Audio, read by Andreas Fröhlich , abridged 5 CDs 396 min., ISBN 978-3-86952-055-1
• 2011: Chamber fibrillation , audio book Hamburg, read by Sandra Borgmann , 5 CDs 372 min .; ISBN 978-3-86952-091-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Anne Holt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Anne Holt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Anne Holt at Skandinavische-Krimis.com - biography, bibliography
• Short portrait and quote from Holt about her novels - at Krimi-Couch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ For the biographical information, see the Norwegian Anne Holt page ( memento of the original from September 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ See report in the Norwegian Dagbladet
3. ^ Anne Holt's top 10 female detectives , The Guardian, December 8, 2010, accessed September 5, 2019
4. ^ "Koran in the youth room" , Süddeutsche Zeitung of April 3, 2017, accessed September 5, 2019