Thomas Kanger

Thomas Kanger (* 1951 ) is a Swedish writer and journalist .

Life

Thomas Kanger grew up in Uppsala , then spent 20 years in Västerås .

He has been working as a journalist since 1980 and freelance since 1982. Among other things, he wrote in Israel and in thirty other countries. He lived in California, New Delhi, and Jerusalem. Since the 1990s he has also worked for television, including for “Kalla Fakta” ​​on TV4 and for the channel's news program. Since 2002 he has been developing for Sveriges Television, the public television in Sweden, features and reports under “Document inifrån”. Most recently he reported under the title “Stulen barndom” (Stolen Childhood) on attacks on children in care in Sweden in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Since 1997 he has also been working in the field of advanced training for journalists in Palestine and Vietnam. Since 1997 he has been teaching journalism at the Swedish Institute for Further Education of Journalists.

As early as 2003, his novel Der tote Winkel addressed the non-humanitarian motives of human smugglers and immigration authorities dealing with refugees from outside Europe. The novel The Sunday Man was nominated for the Swedish Crime Award. The novels of the crime writer have been translated into German, Norwegian, Finnish, Italian, Polish and Danish, among others.

The author lives with his wife Eva and three children near Stockholm .

Works

• Who shot - Olof Palme? Neuer-Malik Verlag, Kiel 1987
• The blind spot. Novel. btb paperback 73754 (Den döda vinkeln, 2003)
• The blind spot. Novel. btb paperback 73708 (Gränslandet, 2007)
• The Sunday man. Novel. btb-Taschenbuch 73574 (Söndagsmannen, 2004)
• Throw the first stone. Ullstein, Munich 2003 (Första stenen, 2001)
• Sing like a bird. Ullstein Verlag, Munich 2004 (Sjung som en fågel, 2002)
• The keeper of secrets. Thriller. btb-Taschenbuch 74150, Munich 2011 (Ockupanterna, 2008)

Web links

• Homepage Kangers