About Åke Edwardson
Born 1953. Åke Edwardson is a Swedish journalist, writer, university teacher, children's writer and crime fiction writer.
Åke Edwardson (born 10 March 1953 in Eksjö, Småland) is a Swedish author of detective fiction, and was previously a lecturer in journalism at University of Gothenburg, the city where many of his Inspector Winter novels are set. Edwardson has had many jobs, including as 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' Academy 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. In a Spiegel Online interview on 21 June 2008, Edwardson declared that he would not write any more crime novels after 10 episodes about his protagonist Winter.
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Who is Åke Edwardson?
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Åke Edwardson was born on 10 March 1953 in Eksjö parish.
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Åke Edwardson is a journalist, writer, university teacher, children's writer and crime fiction writer.
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Åke Edwardson is Swedish.
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