Maj Sjöwall

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Maj Sjöwall (2009)

Maj Sjöwall (born September 25, 1935 in Stockholm , † April 29, 2020 in Landskrona ) was a Swedish writer and translator .

Life

Sjöwall studied graphics and journalism . After that she worked for several newspapers. In 1961 she met her colleague Per Wahlöö , with whom she lived from 1963. Both were Marxists . Sjöwall died at the end of April 2020 at the age of 84 after a long illness.

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With Wahlöö, Sjöwall wrote the globally successful ten-volume socially critical detective novel cycle about a crime with the main character of the Swedish police officer Martin Beck . The books have been translated into 40 languages ​​(as of spring 2020), filmed for cinema and television and edited as radio plays. They won numerous prizes, including an Edgar Allan Poe Award in the Best Novel category for the novel The Laughing Policeman in 1971 (Original: Den skrattande polisen ; German: Endstation for nine ). After Per Wahlöö's death in 1975, Maj Sjöwall wrote only a few detective novels that could not build on the success of the Martin Beck novels. She later worked as a translator for crime literature .

The person of Commissioner Martin Beck was continued in several television films based on motifs by Sjöwall and Wahlöö. In 1996 Sjöwall received the Adolf Grimme Prize (together with Gösta Ekman ) for Inspector Beck's first series adaptation .

Publications

With Per Wahlöö:

  1. Roseanna (1965, German The Dead in the Göta Canal )
  2. Mannen som gick upp i rök (1966, German The man who vanished into thin air )
  3. Mannen på balkongen (1967, German The man on the balcony )
  4. Den skrattande polisen (1968, German terminus for nine (FRG) and The laughing police officer (GDR))
  5. Brandbilen som försvann (1969, German alarm in Sköldgatan )
  6. Polis, polis, potatismos! (1970, German and the big ones are let go )
  7. Den vedervärdige mannen från Säffle (1971, Eng . The disgust from Säffle )
  8. Det slutna rummet (1972, eng . Locked and locked (FRG) and The locked room (GDR))
  9. Polismordaren (1974, German The murderer of the police )
  10. Terroristerna (1975, German The Terrorists )
  • Sista resan och andra berättelser [ The last journey and other stories ] (2007)

With other co-authors:

  • Dansk intermezzo: novelle [ Danish Intermezzo ] (1989, together with Bjarne Nielsen ) (Danish)
  • Kvinnan som liknade Greta Garbo , Dutch: De vrouw die op Greta Garbo leek (1990, together with Tomas Ross , German: A woman like Greta Garbo )
  • Pea soup flambéed (2003, together with Jürgen Alberts ), ISBN 3-203-85209-8
  • The last smoker (2009, together with Jürgen Alberts), In: Tödlicheelemente , (audio book), ISBN 9783867172295
  • Criminal Doubles (2009, together with Jürgen Alberts)

Web links

Commons : Maj Sjöwall  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kirsten Reimers: At the beginning of the Swedish thriller. Obituary on the Deutschlandfunk website , April 30, 2020. Accessed April 30, 2020.
  2. ↑ Svenska Dagbladet: Deckardam (Swedish: "Die Krimidame"), from the daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet , published June 19, 2010, accessed June 17, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Sjöwall, Maj
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 2020
Place of death Landskrona