Notes on the video linked below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiwObVhyoc8
- over the last decade, it has become a global phenomenon
- grey, gloomy and cold
- everything goes wrong in Scandinavian crime fiction
- stockholm - clean, safe
- Steig Larsson - the girl with the dragon tattoo
- 45 million readers
- he knew thriller genre in and out
- didn't see success as he died at 50
- in the book, she digs deep into a family and finds nazi relations
- Stieg Larsson was an investigative journalist who was very brave
- he wrote for expo magazine
- one day a group of boys waited outside his workplace for him with a baseball bat
- he used journalism to dramatise the prejudice in Sweden. he puts his views in books
- Pippi Longstockings was his main inspirations for the main character in 'the girl with the dragon tattoo'
- abusive violence is a theme in his book
- The girl is damaged and abused but her revenge is appalling
- some would argue the abuse towards women in 'the girl with the dragon tattoo' is there for us to enjoy (sexual exploitation)
- Peter Hoeg - Miss Smilas feelings for snow
- book info: a researcher who researches into the snow. sees a dead boy who jumped of an apartment block. doesn't think its an accident.
- the setting is like a Scandinavian crime fiction - bleak backdrops.
- 'you need to be from the Nordic country to alive happily here' - Hakan Nesser
- Arnaldur Indridason
- looks at danger of places in Iceland - people disappear
- 'Jar city' (book turned to a movie) - dark humour
- the first bit of light is a blessing
- sweden - country of 'free love' (1950/60)
- welfare state failed to live up to expectations
- Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
- put Marxist perceptions in their work
- there were no realistic police novels so they made one
- in 1965 they wrote crime stories about Stockholm police
- taxes were high - failed welfare state
- Olof Palme (Swedish prime minister)
- 1986 he was murdered
- sweden lost innocence
- the case was never solved
- Henning Mankell
- 1988 - wanted to write about the problem with xenophobia and racism growing in Sweden
- how difficult it is to be a good police officer
- 'Wallander'
- Karin Fossum - 'Don't look back'
- Ibsen says the social environment can create social outcasts
- Karin understood the connection between killer and victim
- she tries to make you feel something in work
- someone she knew for 18 years killed a child
- writes about how death affects us
- Jo Nesbo - The Redbreast
- norway became rich when they found oil
- wealth took the city by storm
- fascinated by what goes on in the human mind
- 'the snowman'
- go into more blood and violence
- satanic rock music/black metal
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