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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 ]
Håkan Nesser is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a number of successful novels, mostly but not only crime fiction. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the prestigious Glass Key award in 2000. His books have been translated from Swedish into more than twenty languages.
Joakim Lindengren is a Swedish cartoonist, illustrator and artist.
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, they 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 cancelled, then revived in 1987.
Marianne Elisabeth Grönwall, known by her stage name Nanne, is a Swedish singer-songwriter, radio hostess, actress and musical artist.
Åke Edwardson is a Swedish author of detective fiction, and was previously a lecturer in journalism at Gothenburg University, the city where many of his Inspector Winter novels are set. Edwardson has had many jobs, including as a journalist and press officer for the United Nations and his crime novels have made him a three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Award for best crime novel. His first novel to be translated into English, in 2005, was Sun and Shadow. The second, Never End, followed in 2006.
Stieg Ivar Trenter was a Swedish journalist and popular crime writer.
Unni Maria Lindell is a Norwegian writer. She is best known for her crime novels (whodunits), but has also written a collection of poems and several children's and young adult books.
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.
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 perhaps best known for playing Kurt Wallander in the television films based on the novels by Henning Mankell.
Finn Øglænd is a Norwegian author, poet, translator and literature critic. He grew up on a small holding at Tananger in Sola municipality.
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 Martin 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. he was Emils pick Martin Widmark was born in Sturefors and grew up in Linköping, but has lived in Stockholm since the 1980s. He has taught middle school and also Swedish for immigrants. He writes children's books and teaching materials including works on weird stuff and hes weird.
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.
Maj Bylock was a Swedish children's writer, translator, and teacher. Her works have been translated into Danish, English, Finnish, Faroese, Dutch, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Sami, Turkish, and German. She is the recipient of the Litteris et Artibus medal among other awards.
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