Karin Alvtegen

Karin Alvtegen (2013)

Karin Anna Alvtegen (born June 8, 1965 in Huskvarna , Småland ) is a Swedish writer and screenwriter.

Live and act

She is a great niece of the Swedish children's book author Astrid Lindgren . She has been working in the film industry since 1985, most recently as a screenwriter. After Peter Høeg and Henning Mankell , she received the most important Swedish crime prize, Glasnyckeln, for her detective novel The Fleet . In 2008 she won the Danish Palle Rosenkrantz Prize for her novel Schatten , published the previous year . Her books have been published in over 30 countries so far.

Alvtegen now lives in Stockholm .

Works

• Fault. Detective novel ("Skuld", 1999). Dumont, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-8321-6105-7 .
• The fugitive ("Saknad", 2000). Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 2004, ISBN 3-499-26469-2 .
• The affair ("Svek", 2004). Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek 2006, ISBN 978-3-499-24313-4 .
• Shame ("Skam", 2005). Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-24196-3 .
• Shadow (“Skugga”, 2007). Dumont, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-8321-8045-4 .
• A second chance (“En sannolik historia”, 2010). btb, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-442-75337-6
• "Fjärilseffekten", 2013
• "Nyckeln till Hinsides", 2016

Web links

Commons : Karin Alvtegen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Karin Alvtegen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Karin Alvtegen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Karin Alvtegen on www.krimi-couch.de
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Ross, Rasmus: Logbog . In: Politiken , February 23, 2008, p. 4.