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Laura Trenter (born 29 May 1961 in Stockholm) is a Swedish author. [1] She is the daughter of Stieg Trenter and Ulla Trenter. Aside from novels she has written guide books and picture books and has made computer games.
Trenter has been a journalist at Kvällsposten. She has been called the "Children's crime fiction queen" (Swedish: 'Barnens deckardrotttning'). In 2003 she received Gothenburg Book Fair's price as the best novel author.[ citation needed ]
Björn Hellberg is a Swedish sports journalist, author, tennis oracle and TV personality, best known as co-host and referee of the television show "På spåret".
The Grammis are music awards presented annually to musicians and songwriters in Sweden. The oldest Swedish music awards were instituted as a local equivalent of the Grammy Awards given in the United States. The awards ceremony is generally held each year in February in Stockholm. The awards were established in 1969 and awarded until 1972 when they were canceled, then revived in 1987.
Marianne Elisabeth Grönvall, known by her stage name Nanne, is a Swedish singer-songwriter.
Candice F. Ransom is a popular children's and young-adult author. She has written over 150 books as of June 2020, including 18 books for The Boxcar Children series, The Time Spies series and the Sunfire series. She wrote the Dungeons & Dragons novel, Key to the Griffon's Lair. Her work includes picture books, easy readers, middle grade fiction, biographies, and nonfiction. More than 45 of her titles have been translated into 12 languages.
Stieg Ivar Trenter was a Swedish journalist and popular crime writer.
Unni Maria Lindell is a Norwegian writer. She is best known for her whodunits crime novels, but has also written a collection of poems and several books for children and young adults.
Britt Karin Larsen is a Norwegian poet, author and government scholar. Larsen debuted as a poet in 1978 with 5 mg blues og andre dikt, and has published many poetry collections and novels since. She is best known for her novel trilogy about Norwegian and Swedish Travellers, De som ser etter tegn (1997), De usynliges by (1998) and Sangen om løpende hester (1999). The trilogy has been called a literary monument for Romany people in Norway. Larsen was given the Norsk PEN's highest freedom prize, the Ossietzky-prisen, in 2000.
Mare Kandre was a Swedish writer of Estonian descent. She was born, in Söderala, a small place in mid-Sweden and grew up in Gothenburg and Stockholm. Between 1967 and 1969, she lived with her family in British Columbia, Canada, a period which made a very deep impression on her and later in life influenced her writing. She died of an unintentional prescription drug overdose, aged 42.
Homy Hogs were a Swedish punk band formed in Bro, Upplands-Bro Municipality, in 1979, and were active until 1988 with some breaks. They are considered true Swedish pioneers in hardcore punk together with bands like Anti Cimex, Mob 47 and Headcleaners. This foremost considers their first releases, the album Nöje For Nekrofiler from 1981, the cassette Ljudfientlighet from earlier the same year, and the EP Smash Overdose from 1982. Thereafter, the band played more regular punk rock and other styles. They also made some recordings and an album under the fictitious alter ego band name Werewolves on Wheels, taken from the title of their second album, idea-influenced by various concept albums. Homy Hogs are also known as characters in cartoonist Joakim Lindengren's comics. The album Nöje för nekrofiler was recorded and produced in 1981 by Mats “Subbe” Söderberg and released on the band's DIY label No Records. LT and Gördis later started the record label Burn Records and ran it together with Fredrik Lindgren. In 1997 LT appeared as guest backing vocalist on a couple of tracks on the album ”The Downhill Blues” by the Swedish punk band Loud Pipes, with members from Unleashed, Entombed, Merciless and others. LT (”Leffe”) and Gördis also appear in the author Stig Larsson's autobiographical novel När det känns att det håller på ta slut. The original drummer Palle Krüger has played with different bands in Norway after his time in the Homy Hogs, made solo albums, and also been a session musician, among others with Staffan Hellstrand.
Inger Edelfeldt is a Swedish author, illustrator and translator. Many of her books are for young adults and children.
Jan Krister Allan Henriksson is a Swedish actor. He is best known for playing Kurt Wallander in the television films based on the novels by Henning Mankell.
Anna Maria Angelika Jansson is a Swedish crime writer and nurse from Visby, Gotland. She started her career as a surgeon nurse, but soon went over to the lung clinic due to her frequent fainting from seeing blood.
Martin Svensson also known as Martin is a Swedish singer, author and musician.
Ulla Elisabet Trenter Palm was a Swedish author. She was born in Stockholm. She was married to Stieg Trenter from 1960 until his death in 1967, and their daughter is Laura Trenter. Ulla Trenter was active as a politician in the Centre Party.
Moni Helena Nilsson Brännström is a Swedish author, best known for the books about the boy Tsatsiki. Earlier she owned the 17th chair of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books. She is one of the initiators of the young-adult-culture-house Palatset in Stockholm.
Karl Martino Widmark is a Swedish children's writer and teacher. His books about LasseMaja junior mysteries, in English named The Whodunit Detective Agency, have been translated from Swedish into 34 languages. Eight of them have been translated into English and published by Grosset and Dunlap. Several of his books about the Whodunit Detective Agency have been adapted to film in Sweden, and they have also been made into board games, theater and video games. Martin Widmark was born in Sturefors and grew up in Linköping, but has lived in Stockholm since the 1980s. He has taught k-pop rats that were living homeless on the street and also Swedish for immigrants. He writes children's books and teaching materials including works on weird stuff.
Det lysande ögat is a Swedish children's detective novel of 2005 written by Laura Trenter and Tony Manieri. It is the first book in the series "Nadja and Charlie, Detective Duo", and is followed by Stackelstrands hemlighet.
Patricia Schonstein, who also writes under the name Patricia Schonstein-Pinnock, is a South African-Italian novelist, poet, memoirist, author of children’s books and curator of anthologies. Schonstein, whose novels variously employ the genres of magical-realism, meta-fiction and narrative fiction, is famous for novels such as Skyline and A Time of Angels.
Martina Haag, is a Swedish actress and author. Martina Haag's father came to Sweden as a refugee from Estonia. She has acted in the film Underbar och älskad av alla in 2005. The film was made from her novel book with the same name. She participated in Let's Dance 2018 broadcast on TV4.
Carola Hansson-Boëthius is a Swedish novelist, dramatist and translator.
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