We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
Death is never very pretty. - Maj Sjowall
Death is never very pretty.
- Maj Sjowall
We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people … - Maj Sjowall
We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people …
I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels. - Maj Sjowall
I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.
You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild… - Maj Sjowall
You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild…
Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had… - Maj Sjowall
Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had…
Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness. - Maj Sjowall
Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.
We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent. - Maj Sjowall
We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets. - Maj Sjowall
People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house. - Maj Sjowall
When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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