Scandinavian crime novels
2005.11.04
“Detective fiction from Scandinavia has been fashionable in Britain for some time. The trend was set in 1994 with Peter Hí¸eg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow. This Danish thriller radiated an unfamiliar polar chill, but it was Mankell who truly opened the door for Nordic crime. He has been followed into English translation by other Scandinavian thriller writers such as Karin Fossum and Eva-Marie Liffner, Norwegian and Swedish respectively.”
That’s what you could read in the Guardian two years ago in a long article about the Swedish writer Henning Mankell (you can find this article online here).
As for me, I guess I read every books by Mankell published down here and a friend of mine has started studying swedish for one reason: she felt like reading Mankel novels in swedish… Probably because there’s a special atmosphere in those books, as well as in other crime novels by scandinavian authors such as Åke Edwardson or Arnaldur Indridason…
You’ll find an interesting article about those nordic novels on this website.
