Anders Roslund

Nils Anders Micael Roslund (born 1 January 1961) is a Swedish author and journalist. He is best known for his work as part of the crime-writing duo Roslund & Hellström, but has continued to write crime fiction after the death of Börge Hellström in 2017. As part of the duo Roslund & Thunberg he has also written under the name Anton Svensson.

Early life Anders Roslund was born in Jönköping on 1 January 1961. He grew up in Kristianstad. He lived from time to time at the home of his grandfather where life was quieter than at his own house. He had literary ambitions from an early age.

Roslund has won several journalism awards but his work also brought enemies. He was put on a "death list" of an extremist far-right-wing organisation, and for a while employed a bodyguard and was protected by moving into safe houses. He discussed his experience with another Swedish crime writer, Stieg Larsson, who had also received death threats from Neo-Nazis. was one of the founders of (KRIS), an organisation devoted to rehabilitating former criminals.

The duo made their debut with the crime novel Odjuret (Pen 33 / The Beast) in 2004. Their novels put a particular emphasis on the roles of victim and perpetrator, offering a morally grey portrayal of motive and responsibility.

Their works have been translated into more than 30 languages.

Anton Svensson - Roslund & Thunberg

Writing as Anton Svensson, Roslund and , forming the writing duo Roslund & Thunberg, have published the crime novels Björndansen (2014) (The Father : Made in Sweden. Part I, 2016), and En bror att dö för (2017) (The Sons: Made in Sweden. Part II, 2018). Both translated into many languages.

Thunberg is a Swedish screenwriter and author. He has written screenplays for False Trail, as well as everal of the films featuring the fictional characters Martin Beck, Carl Hamilton, and Kurt Wallander. More recently (2017–2021), he has written screenplays for several TV series.

Continued writing

Roslund continued writing novels in the Detective Inspector Ewert Grens series after Hellström's death, publishing no. 9 in the series, Jamåhonleva (Knock Knock) in 2019. Film rights in the US were sold to Thunder Road.

The Informer, a 2019 crime thriller film, is based on Roslund & Hellström’s Three Seconds, directed by Andrea Di Stefano and written by Matt Cook. It stars Joel Kinnaman as the title character, alongside Rosamund Pike, Common, Ana de Armas and Clive Owen.

Box 21 and Cell 8 (Edward Finnigans upprättelse) were made into TV series directed by Swedish director Johan Brisinger, in 2020 and 2022 respectively. Both starred Leonard Terfelt and Mimosa Willamo as detectives Ewert Grens and Mariana Hermansson. Box 21 was filmed in Bucharest and Stockholm, while Cell 8 was filmed in Estonia.