Liza Marklund

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Liza Marklund bigraphy, stories - Swedish journalist and detective fiction writer

Liza Marklund : biography

September 9, 1962 –

Eva Elisabeth "Liza" Marklund (born 9 September 1962) is a Swedish journalist and crime writer. She was born in Pålmark near Piteå, Norrbotten. Her novels, most of which feature the fictional character Annika Bengtzon, a newspaper journalist, have been published in thirty languages. Marklund is the co-owner of Sweden’s third largest publishing house, Piratförlaget and a columnist in the Swedish tabloid Expressen. She is also a Unicef ambassador. The Postcard Killers, a crime thriller written in collaboration with American bestselling author James Patterson, is Marklund’s twelfth book.. Official site, Piratförlaget. It was published on January 27, 2010, in Sweden, and became number one on the Swedish bestseller list in February 2010.. Svensk Bokhandel, 2010. It was published on 16 August 2010 in the United States.http://www.kvp.se/noje/bocker/1.1481928/marklund-och-patterson-i-samarbetehttp://www.piratforlaget.se/nyheter-om-liza-marklund/vem-ar-james-patterson_ At the end of August, it reached number one in the New York Times best-seller list, making Liza Marklund the second Swedish author (the first one being Stieg Larsson with the Millennium Trilogy) ever to reach the number one spot. Marklund lives in Spain with her husband Mikael.

Awards

  • The Poloni Prize (Polonipriset) 1998 for Best Swedish Crime Novel by a Female Writer (for "The Bomber")
  • The Debutant Prize (Debutantpriset) 1998 for Best First Novel of the Year (for "The Bomber")
  • Swedish Union’s Award 1999 for Author of the Year (for "Studio 69")

UNICEF ambassador

In 2004 Liza Marklund was appointed ambassador for the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF. The reason was her long interest in issues related to human rights. She travels regularly on behalf of the UNICEF and has, among other things, especially covered questions related to child slavery and children with HIV and Aids in the third world.. UNICEF, 2004.. Aftonbladet, 2005-03-21.. Unicef, 2007.

Literary career

Since her debut in 1995, Liza Marklund has written eight crime novels and co-authored two documentary novels with Maria Eriksson and one non-fiction book about female leadership with Lotta Snickare. Marklund’s crime novels featuring crime reporter Annika Bengtzon have become international bestsellers. She won the "Poloni Prize" (Polonipriset) 1998 for "Best Swedish Crime Novel by a Female Writer" and "The Debutant Prize", (Debutantpriset) 1998 for "Best First Novel of the Year" with the crime novel Sprängaren (The Bomber), published in 1998. (Marklund Golden Calf for Ordupplaget). Svensk Bokhandel, No. 7, 9 April 1999.. Liza Marklund, Salomonsson Agency. Retrieved 8 February 2009. Marklund was named Author of the Year in Sweden 1999 by the Swedish trade union SKTF, won the radio network RixFM’s Swedish Literary Prize in 2007, and was selected the fifteenth most popular woman in Sweden of 2003 and the fourth most popular woman in Sweden of 2004 in a yearly survey with 1,000 participants, conducted by ICA-kuriren, a publication published by a Swedish supermarket chain.. ICA_kuriren, 2005-01-05.

Her books have been number one bestsellers in all five Nordic countries.Flood, Alison. The Guardian, 29 April 2009. In 2002 and 2003, two of Liza Marklund’s crime novels were listed on the international bestseller lists by the online magazine Publishing Trends, Prime Time ranking #13 and The Red Wolf ranking #12. In Scandinavia and Germany, her non-fiction novels have become the center of a heated controversy. (Crime-story queen in crossfire). Buchreport, Die Buchbranche im Fokus der Medien, 22 January 2009.. (Crime author Liza Marklund is struggling for credibility). Die Welt, 23 January 2009.

The Maria Eriksson series

Gömda (Buried Alive) is the 1995 literary debut of Swedish author Liza Marklund. It is the first novel in the Maria Eriksson series. The novel is based on a true story and deals with a woman who is abused by her boyfriend and forced into hiding.