Talk:Carl Hamilton (fictional character)

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Is Carl Hamilton named after a journalist in a large swedish newspaper? I haven't read this anywhere, but since one of Guillou's collegues has the same name it would be to strange if this wasn't so.

Jan Guillou and Carl Hamilton are both writing articles in the swedish newspaper "Aftonbladet".

Coq Rouge: 1) The massacre didnt take place in a embassy but a private house.

          2) He didnt prevent the massacre,he only saved a little girl

According to the "About section" in my pocketbooks, the character is loosely based on Guillou's friend, Mr.Oxenstierna, who was a Swedish noble in a leftist organization. However, to hide that it was based on him, he needed to use another name, and was told that Hamilton was a very common name for the nobility. So therefore Hamilton was chosen. Note that he based the person on it, not the skillset or anything. ;)

The quote that sparked Guillous was when Oxenstierna was refered to as Comrade Oxenstierna which has a note of paradox in Swedish since Oxenstierna is a name among high nobility, see Axel Oxenstierna. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.227.146.137 (talk) 14:04, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

At least that's what my paperbacks said (They're in Norwegian though, so I suspect that any Swede here has better extra material in theirs.)

80.202.118.81 (talk) 01:45, 14 January 2008 (UTC)