Ulla Trenter

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Ulla Trenter (born December 18, 1936 in Stockholm as Ulla Anderson ; † December 23, 2019 ) was a Swedish writer and translator .

Life

Trenter completed an academic training as a translator at Stockholm University . She was married to the crime writer Stieg Trenter . From 1959 until his death in 1967 she learned a lot from his skills. She then began her own writing by finishing Stieg Trenter's novel Rosenkavaljeren ("Der Rosenkavalier"). Of reviewers cheered and publishers, she went with writing in track her husband continued and took its people Gallery with photographer Harry Friberg as a problem solver and adversaries of detective superintendent Vesper Johnson. She didn't particularly like this series of the 1950s and experimented in some books with changing the characters' habits or making them appear in disguise. In 1982 she introduced a new main character.

Trenter has a large number of detective novels and in 1979, together with the illustrator Harry Karlsson, wrote a book about Mariefred . In the 1980s she worked for a few years as a study organizer at the adult education center and, from 1987, in the people's bookkeeping . From 1975 she was politically active for the Center Party, was mainly interested in cultural and church issues and sang in the choir. She was a member of a number of apolitical associations, including Zonta International , the crime writers 'association in Stockholm, the Swedish crime writers' academy and Save the Children .

In 1991 her 23rd detective novel Sköna Juveler ("Beautiful Jewels") was published. Although Trenter also had success with detective novels, she preferred to occupy herself with the literary form of the novella . The small format and the special demands of the composition gave her pleasure both as a writer and as a reader. She had said herself that she writes for pleasure and entertainment on the one hand, but also to leave behind an image of everyday life in Sweden in the seventies, eighties and nineties.

In 1997 her book Kungens lilla piga (“The King's Little Maid”) was reprinted and in 1998 Döda rummet (“The Dead Room”) came out again. Her book Stieg Trenters mat (“Stieg Trenters Essen”) is a fascinating mixture of biography and cookbook. Her last work was a translation of Agatha Christie's biography .

Works

  • Rosenkavaljeren (1967)
  • Kungens lilla piga (1968)
  • Påfågeln (1969)
  • Odjuret (1970)
  • Guests (1971)
  • Skating (1972)
  • Kedjan (1973)
  • Sov i ro (1974)
  • Tigerhajen (1975)
  • Drakblodet (1976)
  • En gång är ingen gång (1977)
  • De dödas lott (1978)
  • Kartan (1979)
  • Mariefred Staden Slottet Omgivningarna (1979)
  • Skyddsänglarna (1980)
  • Roten Till Det Oda (1981)
  • Döda Rummet (1982)
  • Rika barn leka häst (1983)
  • Grodmuggen (1984)
  • Som man bäddar (1985)
  • Värsta möjliga tystnad (1986)
  • En död liten stuga (1987)
  • Döden i rikssalen (1988)
  • De röda cirklarna (1989)
  • Sköna juveler (1991)
  • Lust Murder (1999)
  • Varför dör grannarna? (2006)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Interview with Ulla Trenter from November 9, 2009 , accessed on March 13, 2010
  2. ↑ a b c Ulla Trenter's biography ( Memento from July 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Trenter, Ulla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anderson, Ulla (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH 23 December 2019