Swedish Literature Quotes

I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.

I'm Swedish. Sweden is known for its melancholia.

We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be a highbrow writer as my father. He never, ever read anything like crime novels. He wrote biographies of Dante, James Joyce, August Strindberg and Joseph Conrad.

There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones.

If you want to start reading Swedish crime fiction, you have to start with Sjowall and Wahloo.

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 been translated into, among others, German.

My favorite country that I have visited would have to be Sweden. I'm such a sucker for the Swedish culture, and I learned Swedish in college, so I like to try and navigate my way around.

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.

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 love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.