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Inger Frimansson

A master at creeping unease

 

Inger Frimansson, a master of the psychological thriller, began her writing career as a journalist. Her first novel appeared in 1984, but her major breakthrough came in 1998 with Good Night, my Darling, which won the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year, given by the Swedish Crime Writer Academy. The jury’s motivation: “A psychological thriller of madness and revenge which the reader cannot easily forget.” Inger Frimansson is the only female author to have won Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year more than once; the second time was in 2005 for the sequel The Shadow in the Water.

 

Inger Frimansson has received a number of awards for her books. The latest one was 2009 when The Stronger (De starkare) won the prize Spårhunden, Best Youth Detective Novel of the Year. An arrangement by the Swedish Crime Writer Academy (Svenska Deckarakademin). She has previously won Lilla Nobelpriset (the Nobel Prize in Literature for Children) in 1963. In 2004 she was awarded with The Oak Leaf from the magazine Länstidningen. And in early 2008 her Good Night My Darling (God natt min älskade) won gold in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards 2007, in the category "Fiction - translated".

 

Inger Frimansson has written in a number of genres: novels, poetry, children’s books and young adult novels, but she is most well-known for her psychological thrillers and she has been compared to the best in her field internationally, not in the least Minette Walters. Notable in her works is the way that she develops a creeping unease into her stories. The readers find themselves underneath the skin of her characters and, at any moment, the calm surface of everyday life erupts into the most horrible events. In Inger Frimansson’s world, no one is safe – not even the reader.

 

Author's website: www.frimansson.se

 

Bibliography

 

Bibliography, children/youth

  • 2011 – Saving Rabalder (Rädda Rabalder), children's fiction
  • 2011 – Riding on Golden (Rida på Golden), children's fiction
  • 2009 – The Stronger (De starkare), children/young readers
  • 2007 – Find Jeppe (Hitta Jeppe), children/young readers
  • 2002 – Wrapped in Rose Paper (Svept i rosa papper), young adult novel
  • 1999 – The Fire (Elden), young adult novel
  • 1995 – Love, Faith, Friendship, Hate (Kärlek, trohet, vänskap, hat), young adult novel
  • 1993 – A Bad Summer (Skräpsommaren), young adult novel

 

Other and older works

  • 2003 – Annunciation Day (Bebådelsedag), Christmas book
  • 1996 – The Eye Rests There (Där inne vilar ögat), short story collection
  • 1995 – The Soldiers Daughter (Soldaternas dotter), novel
  • 1993 – The Man who fled over the Mountains (Mannen som flöt över bergen), poetry collection
  • 1992 – The Hand-Puppy (Handdockan), novel, psychological thriller
  • 1991 – I Also Walk on Water (Jag kan också gå på vattnet), novel
  • 1989 – The Animal under the Thumbs (Djuret under tummarna), novel (part two of The Double Bed)
  • 1987 – Until She Finds a Place of her Own (Tills hon hittar något eget), novel
  • 1986 – The Magic Prince (Den förtrollande prinsen), novel
  • 1984 – The Double Bed (Dubbelsängen), literary debut
  • 1976 – All Though (Trots allt), non fiction

 

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