Per Wahlöö
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Per Fredrik Wahlöö (born August 5, 1926 in Tölö parish, Halland, died June 22, 1975 in Malmö) was a Swedish author. He is perhaps best known for the collaborative work with his wife Maj Sjöwall on a series of detective novels published between 1965 and 1975. As a team they wrote ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police detective in Stockholm. In 1971, The Laughing Policeman (a translation of Den skrattande polisen, originally published in 1968) won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Novel. They also wrote novels separately.
Wahlöö worked after his studies from 1946 on as a police reporter. In the 1950s he went to Spain, where the Francisco Franco regime expelled him from the country in 1956. After long trips around the world he returned to Sweden and started working as a journalist again.
In 1962 he married his colleague Maj Sjöwall. Both are/were admitted Marxists.
