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Håkan Nesser

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Håkan Nesser (born 21 February 1950) is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a number of successful novels, mostly but not only crime fiction. [1]

25 relations: Örebro County, Örebro University, Baltic Sea, Best Swedish Crime Novel Award, Borkmann's Point, Crime fiction, Dagens Nyheter, Dutch language, Furillen, Glass Key award, Greenwich Village, Kumla, Kymlinge, Macmillan Publishers, Netherlands, Poland, Protagonist, Somerset, Sweden, Swedish language, The Mind's Eye (novel), The Return (Nesser novel), Uppsala, Van Veeteren, Woman with Birthmark.

Örebro County

Örebro County (Örebro län) is a county or län in central Sweden.

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Örebro University

Örebro University (Örebro universitet) is a state university in Örebro, Sweden.

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Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Scandinavia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Germany and the North and Central European Plain.

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Best Swedish Crime Novel Award

The Best Swedish Crime Novel Award (Bästa svenska kriminalroman) is a literary prize awarded annually since 1982 by the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy.

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Borkmann's Point

Borkmann's Point (Borkmanns punkt) is a prize-winning crime novel by Swedish writer Håkan Nesser, first published in Sweden in 1994 and translated into English by Laurie Thompson in 2006.

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Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalises crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives.

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Dagens Nyheter

Dagens Nyheter (lit. "the day's news"), abbreviated DN, is a daily newspaper in Sweden.

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Dutch language

The Dutch language is a West Germanic language, spoken by around 23 million people as a first language (including the population of the Netherlands where it is the official language, and about sixty percent of Belgium where it is one of the three official languages) and by another 5 million as a second language.

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Furillen

Furillen (older spelling Furilden) is an island in Rute on the northeast coast of Gotland, Sweden.

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Glass Key award

The Glass Key award (Glasnyckeln, Glasnøglen, Glassnøkkelen, Lasiavain-palkinto, Glerlykillinn) is a literature award given annually to a crime novel by an author from the Nordic countries.

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Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village often referred to by locals as simply "the Village", is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Kumla

Kumla is a locality and the seat of Kumla Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden with 14,062 inhabitants in 2010.

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Kymlinge

Kymlinge is an area of Sundbyberg Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Poland

Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.

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Protagonist

A protagonist In modern usage, a protagonist is the main character of any story (in any medium, including prose, poetry, film, opera and so on).

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Somerset

Somerset (or archaically, Somersetshire) is a county in South West England which borders Gloucestershire and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east and Devon to the south-west.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken natively by 9.6 million people, predominantly in Sweden (as the sole official language), and in parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish.

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The Mind's Eye (novel)

The Mind's Eye (Det grovmaskiga nätet) is a 1993 novel by Håkan Nesser in the Van Veeteren series, translated into English in 2008 by Laurie Thompson.

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The Return (Nesser novel)

The Return (Återkomsten) is a 1995 novel by Håkan Nesser, translated into English in 2007 by Laurie Thompson.

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Uppsala

Uppsala (older spelling Upsala) is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth largest city of Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.

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Van Veeteren

Van Veeteren is a fictional retired Detective Chief Inspector and the main character in a series of ten novels by Håkan Nesser, of which nine have been filmed.

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Woman with Birthmark

Woman with Birthmark (Kvinna med födelsemärke) is a 1996 novel by Håkan Nesser, which won the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award in the same year.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Håkan_Nesser

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