Per Fredrik Wahlöö (born August 5, 1926 in Tölö parish, Halland, died June 22, 1975 in Malmö) was a Swedish author. Events 642 - Battle of Maserfield - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. is one of the traditional Provinces of Sweden ( landskap in Swedish on the western coast of Sweden. Events 217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. He is perhaps best known for the collaborative work with his wife Maj Sjöwall on a series of ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police detective in Stockholm, published between 1965 and 1975. Maj Sjöwall (born September 25, 1935 in Stockholm) is a Swedish author and translator Martin Beck is a fictional Swedish police Detective who is the main character in a series of ten novels by Sjöwall and Wahlöö, collectively titled The ('stɔkhɔlm is Sweden 's Capital and its largest City. It is the site of the national Swedish government, the parliament, and the In 1971, The Laughing Policeman (a translation of Den skrattande polisen, originally published in 1968) won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Novel. The Laughing Policeman (1968 by Sjöwall and Wahlöö, is the fourth police detective novel in the ten-part ' Martin Beck ' series The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars) named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. Mystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers based in New York. They also wrote novels separately.
Wahlöö worked, after his studies, from 1946 onwards as a crime reporter. A reporter is a type of Journalist who Researches and presents information in certain types of Mass media. After long trips around the world he returned to Sweden and started working as a journalist again.
In 1962 he married his colleague Maj Sjöwall. Maj Sjöwall (born September 25, 1935 in Stockholm) is a Swedish author and translator Both are/were admitted Marxists. Marxism is the political philosophy and practice derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
He died of cancer in 1975, aged 48.
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External links
- Author overview at Books and Writers (Finland). Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö are a well-known husband-and-wife team of detective writers from Sweden.
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