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The books that made her famous were written in the 1960s and 1970s, and have since become one of Sweden’s most successful crime series.
widow
Sjöwall’s husband died in 1975, and she has been a widow ever since. After the Martin Beck series ended, she worked as a translator and teacher, among other things. However, she did not leave her own pen.
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In the late 1980s, he wrote “Danish Intermezzo” with Danish author Bjarne Nielsen.
In 1990 he also wrote the book “The woman who looked like Greta Garbo” with Tomás Ross. When Dagbladet met the author in 2007, she could tell how she began her writing career with her husband.
Three children
Her husband began writing the novel “The Mission,” but left a blank page for her to complete here and there.
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– It’s up to me to complete it. It worked. So one day we traveled down the Göta canal. We noticed a young American tourist who was particularly beautiful. Pelle watched her closely. I decided at the time that she would be our first murder victim, she told Dagbladet.
– Did you want to kill her?
– Yes, of pure jealousy. She was killed in the first novel we wrote together, “Roseanna,” she said.
During the latter part of his life, he alternated between living in Copenhagen and Sweden. The author leaves three children: two children from the relationship with Wahlöö and a daughter from a previous relationship. In an interview with the Swedish P1 in 2017, he was able to briefly say that life as a widow was not always so easy.
“I miss him,” he said, according to Expressen.
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