- Per Wahlöö
Per Fredrik Wahlöö (born
August 5 ,1926 in Tölö parish,Halland , diedJune 22 ,1975 inMalmö ) was a Swedish author. He is perhaps best known for the collaborative work with his wifeMaj Sjöwall on a series of ten novels about the exploits ofMartin Beck , a police detective inStockholm , published between 1965 and 1975. In 1971, "The Laughing Policeman" (a translation of "Den skrattande polisen", originally published in 1968) won anEdgar Award from theMystery Writers of America for Best Novel. They also wrote novels separately.Wahlöö worked, after his studies, from 1946 onwards as a crime reporter. 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 . Both are/were admitted Marxists.He died of cancer in 1975, aged 48.
See also
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Sjöwall and Wahlöö External links
* [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wahloo.htm Author overview] at [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ "Books and Writers"] (Finland).
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