” It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after. “
” I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can’t write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are. “
” I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good, it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories. “
” There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones. “
” A good story can travel in time and borders, it hits you no matter where you are. “
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