Female crime fiction writers trade blows with older men
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Earth Times has published a review of the strange goings-on in the Swedish crime fiction world.
A war of words of extraordinary nastiness has erupted among Sweden’s internationally successful crime writers just as the summer holidays are getting into full swing. While innumerable bookworms on beaches, in hammocks or hotel beds are leafing through the new and virtually always weighty murder mysteries by Henning Mankell, Liza Marklund or Ake Edvardsson, the authors of the Scandinavian bestsellers are accusing each other of either not knowing how to write or of being miserable dogs in the manger.
The tit-for-tat name-calling may not have been constructive but it has certainly been amusing.
Novelist Ernst Brunner compared the recent flood of crime fiction with “the shit of the seagulls who ruin my island on the Stockholm archipelago.”
August 30th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
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