Karin Alvtegen
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Karin Alvtegen (born June 8, 1965, Huskvarna, Sweden) is a Swedish writer of crime fiction. Her psychological thrillers are generally set in her native Sweden, and so far three of the books have been translated into English: Missing, Betrayal and Shame. Guilt will be published soon.
Missing was awarded the premier Scandinavian crime writing award the Glass Key in 2001 and was also nominated for the Poloni Award and Best Crime Novel 2000 in Sweden. Shame was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie International Dagger award for crime novels in translation upon publication in English.
She is grand-niece of the popular children's novelist Astrid Lindgren.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels
- Guilt (untranslated) - Skuld (1998)
- Missing (translated by Anna Paterson) (2003) - Saknad (2000)
- Betrayal (translated by Steven T. Murray) (2005) - Svek (2003)
- Shame (translated by Steven T. Murray) (2006) - Skam (2005)
- Shadow (translated by Steven T. Murray) (forthcoming in 2008) - Skugga (2007)
[edit] Screenplay
- 2004 - Hotet ("The Threat")
[edit] Trivia
She was a storyline writer for 24 episodes of the popular long-running Swedish TV soap opera Rederiet . A TV-series was made 2006 after her novel Missing, directed by Ian Madden and with Joanne Frogatt and Gregor Fisher.[2]
