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Jan Arnald

Jan Arnald (born 11 January 1963) is a Swedish novelist and literary critic, whose pen name is Arne Dahl. He has become famous with crime fiction, and he is also a regular writer in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. He published Barbarer (2001) and Maria och Artur (2006) under his own name, but under his pen name he has written a series of crime novels about a fictional group of Swedish crime investigators, called "A Gruppen" in Swedish and "the Intercrime Group" in the first English translation.

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Jan Arnald

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Name
Jan Arnald
Born
11 January 1963
Occupation
Novelist, literary critic
Nationality
Sweden.
Fields
crime.
Honours
Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, Best Swedish Crime Novel Award and Sitges Grand Honorary Award.
Languages
Swedish.

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Jan Arnald (born 11 January 1963) is a Swedish novelist and literary critic, whose pen name is Arne Dahl. He has become famous with crime fiction, and he is also a regular writer in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. He published Barbarer (2001) and Maria och Artur (2006) under his own name, but under his pen name he has written a series of crime novels about a fictional group of Swedish crime investigators, called "A Gruppen" in Swedish and "the Intercrime Group" in the first English translation.

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  1. 01Biography
  2. 02Writing and publications
  3. 03Honours and memberships
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