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Maj Sjowall Books

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Maj Sjowall is a Swedish author renowned for his crime novels, characterized by social criticism and profound psychological descriptions.

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Author:Maj Sjowall

“I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.”

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“We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.”

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Author:Maj Sjowall

“There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.”

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Author:Maj Sjowall

“We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.”

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Author:Maj Sjowall

“Death is never very pretty.”

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“Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.”

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Author:Maj Sjowall

“Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.”

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Book:Roseanna: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (1)

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“When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.”

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Author:Maj Sjowall

About the Author

Born: September 25, 1935
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