Leif G. W. Persson
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 Leif G.W. Persson at the Göteborg Book Fair in 2005 |
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| Born | March 12, 1945 Trollhättan, Sweden |
| Occupation | Novelist, criminologist |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Genres | Crime fiction, mystery fiction |
| Notable work(s) | He Who Kills the Dragon, Falling Freely, As in a Dream, Linda - as in the Linda Murder Case |
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Leif Gustav Willy Persson (born 12 March 1945 in Stockholm) is a Swedish criminologist and novelist. He was a professor in criminology at the Swedish National Police Board from 1992 to 2008. He is known for his crime fiction novels[1] and for his regular appearances as an expert commentator on notable crime cases in television and newspapers. Between 1999 and 2009, he participated as an expert commentator on the television show Efterlyst on TV3. Nowadays he participates in the television show Veckans Brott, which is primarily about unsolved Swedish criminal cases.
In 1977, while working at the Swedish National Police Board, Persson was used as the whistleblower by journalist Peter Bratt in the so called Geijer affair when he confirmed a classified memo sent by then National Police Commissioner Carl Persson to Prime Minister Olof Palme about the alleged ties of the Minister of Justice, Lennart Geijer, to a prostitution ring in Stockholm. Following this affair he was fired from the National Police Board. The string of events almost drove Persson to suicide,[2] but he soon returned as lecturer at Stockholm University. The prostitution ring affair inspired him to write his first novel, Grisfesten. He returned as a professor at the National Police Board in 1992.
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[edit] Novels
- Grisfesten (The Pig Party, 1978)
- Profitörerna (The Profiteers, 1979)
- Samhällsbärarna (The Pillars of Society, 1982)
- Mellan sommarens längtan och vinterns köld (Between Summer's Longing and Winter's Cold, 2002)
- En annan tid, ett annat liv (Another Time, Another Life, 2003)
- Linda - som i Lindamordet (Linda - as in the Linda Murder Case, 2005)
- Faller fritt som i en dröm (Falling Freely, as in a Dream, 2007)
- Den som dödar draken (He Who Kills the Dragon, 2008)
- Den döende detektiven (The Dying Detective, 2010)
[edit] Film and TV series adaptations
- Profitörerna (TV series, 1983)
- Mannen från Mallorca (The Man from Majorca) (film, 1984)
- I lagens namn (film, 1986)
[edit] References
- ^ "Inspector Norse: Why are Nordic detective novels so successful?". The Economist. 2010-03-11. http://www.economist.com/culture/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15660846. Retrieved 2010-03-19.
- ^ Daniel Ekeroth: SWEDISH SENSATIONSFILMS: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema, (Bazillion Points, 2011) ISBN 978-09796163-6-5.
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