Anniversaries, 29 March
Jo Nesbø
The Norwegian, Jo Nesbø, is one of Norway’s most appreciated and successful crime writers. He was born in Oslo as Jon Nesbø, but when he was 16 he formally changed his first name to Jo, which was what his parents had originally thought of calling him. Already when he was very small, the family moved to Molde where he grew up and attended school. His mother was a librarian and read a lot, his father was a company director who often liked to tell stories that he had made up himself for his three s...
Anniversaries, 29 March
Marcel Aymé
French author born in the town of Joigny, Burgundy, as the youngest of six children. His father was a cavalry farrier. His mother died when he was very young, so he was raised by his maternal grandparents who owned a brickworks at Villers-Robert, a small village in the Jura. After his grandparents died, he was looked after by an aunt who lived in the nearby town of Dole. These are the places in which many of Aymé’s novels are set. The family was radical and anti-clerical, a fact that plagued th...
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Carlsson, Christoffer
Christoffer Carlsson grew up a rather lonely child in the small community of Skedala "in the gap between Halmstad and Simlångsdalen along national trunk road 25". His mother is a police clerk and his father a former car mechanic. Books were not common in the house when he was a boy. He discovered them on his own by means of the local mobile library. "No one else knows just how cool this is," he ...