Liza Marklund

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Liza Marklund at an event as part of the murder mystery festival Mord am Hellweg in Werne on November 1st, 2008

Eva Elisabeth "Liza" Marklund (born September 9, 1962 in Pålmark, a village near Piteå ) is a Swedish journalist, crime writer and founder of the Piratförlaget publishing house .

Life

Liza Marklund grew up in northern Sweden and after several stays abroad attended the journalism school. She then worked as a reporter, news chief and editor-in-chief for various newspapers and television stations before starting to write novels.

In 1995 she made her debut as a writer with the book Mia. A Life in Hiding , which she had written with Maria Eriksson, which was later followed by the sequel Mia's Escape . The novels were later criticized because they were marketed as true stories, but they were in fact partly fictional, as Swedish journalist Monica Antonsson found out.

Her first novel, Olympic Fire, followed in 1998 . When this was rejected by publishers, she marketed it through gas stations. The novel was awarded the Swedish Crime Prize in 1998 for the best Swedish first novel and the Poloni Prize from the crime magazine Jury . With her Annika Bengtzon crime novels, she quickly established herself as one of the most widely read authors in Sweden. The Annika Bengtzon thrillers have been translated into 33 languages. A total of 15 million copies were sold worldwide.

The name of her heroine Annika Bengtzon is made up of the first name of Marklund's eldest daughter and the surname of her former manager at the Swedish evening newspaper Expressen Bengt Bengtzon.

The novels Paradies und Olympisches Feuer (German film title: Deadline - Terror in Stockholm ) were filmed with the actress Helena Bergström in the lead role, six other novels with Malin Crépin as Annika Bengtzon.

In 2015 she finished the crime series around Annika Bengtzon with the eleventh and last novel.

As a protest against unfair contract terms in Swedish publishers, she founded Piratförlaget in 1999 together with the author Jan Guillou and the publisher Ann-Marie Skarp .

She continues to work as a journalist, including a columnist for the Swedish evening newspaper Expressen , has been a UNICEF ambassador since November 2004 and lives with her husband and three children alternately in Stockholm and Marbella .

Works

Annika Bengtzon crime novels

In the chronological order of the plot

  • The Wood Thief (2002)
    • Short story from Christmas stories from Scandinavia , published on November 1, 2004 by Rowohlt, ISBN 978-3-499-23819-2
    • republished in Murderous Christmas , edited by Liza Marklund, published in October 2010 by List, ISBN 978-3-548-61015-3
    • Audiobook spoken by Susanne Schröder was published in August 2005 by dhv der Hörverlag, ISBN 978-3-89940-538-5 , 1 CD
  • Prime Time (2002)
  • Der Rote Wolf , original title Den röda vargen (2003)
  • Nobels Testament , original title Nobels Testamente (2006)
  • Life sentence , original title Livstid (2007)
  • New Year's Eve , original title Näst sista dagen på året (2010)
    • Short story from Murderous Christmas , edited by Liza Marklund, published by List in October 2010, ISBN 978-3-548-61015-3
  • White Death , original title Du gamla, du fria (2011)
  • Vulnerable , original title Järnblod (2015)

Other crime novels and thrillers

Mia Eriksson documentary novels

  • Mia. A life in hiding , original title Gömda (1995, revised edition 2000)
  • Mias Flucht , original title Asyl (2004); translated by Susanne Dahlmann
Liza Marklund at the Gothenburg Book Fair 2005

literature

  • Jost Hindersmann: Liza Marklund: Bio and Bibliography. In: Klaus-Peter Walter (ed.): Lexicon of crime literature. Corian-Verlag Meitingen 1993 ff, ISBN 3-89048-600-2
  • Jost Hindersmann: Sweden's new cult figure: Liza Marklund's novels about women, power and violence. In: Jost Hindersmann (Ed.): Fjords, Elche, Murderers: The Scandinavian crime novel. Nordpark-Verlag Wuppertal 2006, pp. 245-264, ISBN 978-3-935421-16-4
  • Bettina Flitner : women with visions - 48 Europeans. With texts by Alice Schwarzer . Knesebeck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89660-211-X , pp. 142-145.

See also

swell

  1. Welt online from January 23, 2009 - crime writer Liza Marklund struggles for credibility
  2. http://www.piratforlaget.se/bocker/jarnblod/

Web links

Commons : Liza Marklund  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files