Kjell Eriksson Sweden
Author and horticulturist, born 1953. Kjell Eriksson has written novels and essays. For his crime novel, Den upplyste stigen (The Illuminated Path), Kjell Eriksson was awarded the 1999 Prize for Best First Novel by the Swedish Crime Academy. The next two novels were shortlisted for the Prize for Best Swedish Crime Novel which he won in 2002 for his fourth crime novel, Prinsessan av Burundi (The Princess of Burundi).
His fifth crime novel featuring crime inspector Ann Lindell is Nattskärran (2003) (The Night Jar), and for the fifth time Kjell Eriksson was nominated for the most important Swedish prize in crime.
For the sixth time, Kjell Eriksson was nominated for the Prize for Best Swedish Crime Novel, viz. for his novel Nattens grymma stjärnor (2004) (The Cruel Stars of the Night). Mannen från bergen (2005) (The Man from the Mountains) is the seventh in the Ann-Lindell series.
Foreign rights have been sold to a long list of countries: USA, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Italy, Bulgaria.
Final Ann Lindell novel, 10th in the series.
Öppen grav
(Open Grave)
Ordfront, October 2009
Professor Bertram von Ohler has been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine. This news causes problems in the otherwise quiet upper-class area of Kåbo in Uppsala. Not everybody is happy with the choice of winner. Soon there are critical protests, not least from the professor’s colleagues who feel wrongly disregarded.
Mysterious incidents start to occur. It starts off with a stone being thrown at the prize winner’s house. Boyish pranks say the police, but what follows is certainly not innocent amusement. The professor begins to feel trapped. Somebody certainly doesn’t want him to have the prize, somebody wants to get rid of him. And there are many people to want harm von Ohler.
Everything started when the housekeeper came to the professor’s childhood home. She was replaced by her younger sister, Agnes who knows most things about the von Ohlers after 55 years with the family. Things that the family would rather keep to themselves.
Police inspector Ann Lidell becomes involved in the case and immediately identifies Agnes Gräsö dialect, Gräsö which Ann knows from years back with Edvard. Now they meet again…
Open Grave is a crime novel about renunciation, revenge and academic pettiness. It is a story about class and culture, city and country and about the woman’s job in the fine Uppsala home.
Rights sold: Germany: dtv
Svarta lögner, rött blod
(Black Lies, Red Blood) (vol. 9)
Ordfront, 2008
Den hand som skälver
(The Hand That Trembles) (vol. 8)
Ordfront, 2007
Mannen från bergen
(The Demon of Dakar) (vol. 7)
Ordfront, 2005
Nattens grymma stjärnor
(The Cruel Stars of the Night) (vol. 6)
Ordfront, 2004
Nattskärran
(The Night Jar) (vol. 5)
Ordfront, 2003
Prinsessen av Burundi
(Prinsessen av Burundi) (vol. 4)
Ordfront, 2002
Stenkistan
(The Stone Coffin) (vol. 3)
Ordfront, 2001
Jorden må rämna
(The Earth Must Crack) (vol. 2)
Ordfront, 2000
Den upplyste stigen
(The Illuminated Path) (vol. 1)
Lindelöw, 1999