Åke Edwardson

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Åke Edwardson

Born 1953 (age 54–55)
Eksjö
Nationality Swedish
Genres Fiction
Subjects Detectives

Åke Edwardson (born 1953) is a Swedish author of detective fiction, and a professor at Gothenburg University, the city where many of his Inspector Winter novels are set. Edwardson has had many jobs, including 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' 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.

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  • Till allt som varit dött (1995)
  • Gå ut min själ (1996)
  • Dans med en ängel (1997)
  • Rop från långt avstånd (1998)
  • Genomresa (1999)
  • Sun and Shadow: an Erik Winter novel (translated by Laurie Thompson) (Sol och skugga 1999)
  • Never End: an Erik Winter novel (translated by Laurie Thompson) (Låt det aldrig ta slut 2000)
  • Frozen Tracks: an inspector Erik Winter novel (translated by Laurie Thompson) (Himlen är en plats på jorden 2001)
  • Segel av sten (2002)
  • Jukebox (2003)
  • Winterland (2004)
  • Samurajsommar (2005) (young adult fiction)
  • Rum nummer 10 (2005)
  • Drakmånad (2006) (young adult fiction)
  • Vänaste land (2006)