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    2020. Maj Sjöwall at Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon Petri Liukkonen. "Maj Sjöwall". Books and Writers. Maj Sjöwall at the Swedish Film Database Maj Sjöwall...
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  • police detective and the main character in a series of ten novels by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, collectively titled The Story of a Crime. Frequently...
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  • Christian music DJ Fabio Maj (born 1970), Italian cross country skier Maj Bylock (1931–2019), Swedish writer, translator, teacher Maj Sjöwall (born 1935), Swedish...
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  • He is perhaps best known for the collaborative work with his partner Maj Sjöwall on a series of ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police...
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    movie series, based on characters featured in the Martin Beck novels of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, starring Peter Haber as the titular character. The first...
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    Donald E. Westlake (1968) Jeffrey Hudson (1969) Dick Francis (1970) Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (1971) Frederick Forsyth (1972) Warren Kiefer (1973) Tony...
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  • neo-noir thriller film loosely based on the 1968 novel of the same name by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. The setting of the story is transplanted from Stockholm...
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  • Martin Beck is a fictional police detective, created by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. Martin Beck may also refer to: Martin Beck (ice hockey) (born 1933)...
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  • Simenon influenced later European procedural writers, such as Sweden's Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, and Baantjer. Perhaps ranking just behind McBain in importance...
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    father of Nordic noir", notes that the Martin Beck series of novels by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö "broke with the previous trends in crime fiction" and...
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  • Roseanna (novel) (category Novels by Sjöwall and Wahlöö)
    Roseanna is a mystery novel by Swedish writers Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, first published in 1965. It is the first novel in their detective series revolving...
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  • The Terrorists (category Novels by Sjöwall and Wahlöö)
    Terrorists (Swedish title: Terroristerna) is a crime novel by Swedish writers Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö; it is the final book in their 10-part detective series...
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    Andersson, film director 2011 – Maj Wechselmann, documentary filmmaker 2012 – Sven Lindqvist, author 2013 – Maj Sjöwall, author and screenwriter 2014 –...
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  • Michael Caton Jones for the second time on his film Urban Hymn. He played Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö's fictional police detective Martin Beck in the BBC Radio...
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  • In November 2020, the series was renewed for a second season. Author Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö's Swedish detective character Martin Beck Mankell, Henning...
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  • Donald E. Westlake (1968) Jeffrey Hudson (1969) Dick Francis (1970) Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (1971) Frederick Forsyth (1972) Warren Kiefer (1973) Tony...
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    Donald E. Westlake (1968) Jeffrey Hudson (1969) Dick Francis (1970) Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (1971) Frederick Forsyth (1972) Warren Kiefer (1973) Tony...
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    Donald E. Westlake (1968) Jeffrey Hudson (1969) Dick Francis (1970) Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (1971) Frederick Forsyth (1972) Warren Kiefer (1973) Tony...
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    Donald E. Westlake (1968) Jeffrey Hudson (1969) Dick Francis (1970) Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (1971) Frederick Forsyth (1972) Warren Kiefer (1973) Tony...
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  • by Bo Widerberg. It is based on the 1971 novel The Abominable Man by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. The film stars Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Sven Wollter, Thomas...
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  • Abramson. It is based on the 1965 novel Roseanna by Swedish writers Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö about fictional Swedish police detective Martin Beck....
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    Donald E. Westlake (1968) Jeffrey Hudson (1969) Dick Francis (1970) Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (1971) Frederick Forsyth (1972) Warren Kiefer (1973) Tony...
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  • considered one of the best literary works from Sweden. In the 1960s, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö collaborated to produce a series of internationally acclaimed...
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  • Sigurðardóttir (born 1963) Dorothy Simpson (born 1933) Maj Sjöwall (1935–2020) (in collaboration – Sjöwall and Wahlöö) Karin Slaughter (born 1971) April Smith...
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    authentic. In the Martin Beck novel, The Man Who Went Up in Smoke, by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, a minor character sporting a full beard and moustasche...
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  • The Laughing Policeman (novel) (category Novels by Sjöwall and Wahlöö)
    The Laughing Policeman is a mystery novel by the Swedish writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, originally published in Sweden in 1968 as Den skrattande...
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  • The Abominable Man (category Novels by Sjöwall and Wahlöö)
    man from Säffle") is a 1971 police procedural novel by Swedish writers Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. It is the seventh book in their series about Martin Beck...
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    Donald E. Westlake (1968) Jeffrey Hudson (1969) Dick Francis (1970) Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (1971) Frederick Forsyth (1972) Warren Kiefer (1973) Tony...
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    Donald E. Westlake (1968) Jeffrey Hudson (1969) Dick Francis (1970) Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (1971) Frederick Forsyth (1972) Warren Kiefer (1973) Tony...
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    Donald E. Westlake (1968) Jeffrey Hudson (1969) Dick Francis (1970) Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (1971) Frederick Forsyth (1972) Warren Kiefer (1973) Tony...
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