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.
Also recorded as Arne Dahl
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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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Biography
Biography
The books are translated into several languages. The first five books were made into 180-minute films, screened as two 90-minute episodes per story. The first, Misterioso, was screened on SVT1 in Sweden on 27 and 28 December 2011, with the following four stories shown in eight weekly instalments between October and December 2012. The series was picked up by BBC Four and screened on British television on Saturday nights as part of BBC Four's foreign crime series season starting in April 2013.
Portrait of Jan Arnald (Arne Dahl)
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Interview of author Arne Dahl
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Key facts
• Name — Jan Arnald • Pen Name — Arne Dahl • Born — 11 January 1963 • Occupation — Novelist, literary critic • Genre — Crime fiction, mystery fiction, • Subject — crime, thriller, mystery • Notable Works — Ont Blod, Misterioso, Upp till toppen av berget • Website — www.arnedahl.net
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Jan Arnald, a literary critic, theatre critic, crime writer and editor, was born in 1963. The birth is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
As Jan Arnald
As Jan Arnald
• Chiosmassakern (novel, 1990) • Nalkanden (poetry collection, 1992) • Genrernas tyranni (thesis, 1995) • 3 variationer (prose, 1996) • Klä i ord (stories, 1997) • Barbarer (novel, 2001) • Maria och Artur (novel, 2006) • Intimus (novel, 2010)
Intercrime series
Intercrime series
• Misterioso (1999); English translation by Tiina Nunnally: Misterioso, (2010 - US title)/The Blinded Man (2012 - UK title) • Ont blod (1998); Bad Blood (2013 - UK title) • Upp till toppen av berget (2000); To the Top of the Mountain(2014 - UK title) • Europa blues (2001) • De största vatten (2002); Many Waters • En midsommarnattsdröm (2003); A Midsummer Night's Dream • Dödsmässa (2004); Requiem • Mörkertal (2005); Hidden Numbers • Efterskalv (2006); Afterquake • Himmelsöga (2007); Eye in the Sky
Opcop quartet
Opcop quartet
• Viskleken (2011); Chinese Whispers • Hela havet stormar (2012); Musical Chairs • Blindbock (2013); Blindfold • Sista paret ut (2014); Last couple out The fourth installment of the series came out in spring 2014.
Berger & Bloom series
Berger & Bloom series
• Utmarker (2016); Watching you • Inland (2017); Hunted • Mittvatten (2018); You are next • Friheten (2020) • Islossning (2021)
Arne Dahl TV adaptations
Arne Dahl TV adaptations
The ten Intercrime novels have all been dramatised by Swedish production company Filmlance, the first five in 2011 and the rest in 2015. Filmlance is also responsible for the series Bron (shown in the UK as "The Bridge") and for the later Martin Beck detective programmes. Each story has been dramatised in the form of a two-part miniseries, each with two ninety minute episodes (series 1) or two one hour episodes (series two).
Series 1 (2011–2012)
Series 1 (2011–2012)
A 2011 TV adaptation of five of the Arne Dahl stories was produced by Filmlance International (in co-production with several other European companies. Outside Sweden, the series was broadcast in the UK on BBC Four between April–June 2013, along with numerous other countries. The series is currently being broadcast in the United States through MHz Networks, most recently from November 2013 to January 2014.
Series 2 (2015)
Series 2 (2015)
The last five novels in the Intercrime series were adapted for Series 2 of the popular Arne Dahl TV series, produced by Filmlance. They premiered in February 2015 in Sweden. The BBC began airing the second season on BBC Four in October 2015.
Other books
• Elva (2008); Eleven
Prizes and awards
• 2003 The Palle Rosenkrantz prize, for Europa Blues • 2005 Deutscher Krimi Preis, for Upp till toppen av berget • 2006 Deutscher Krimi Preis, for Europa Blues • 2007 Chosen by Reader's Digest as Europe's best crime novelist • 2007 The Swedish Crime Writing Award • 2010 The Radio Bremen Crime Fiction Award • 2010 Nominated to European Crime Fiction Star Award 2010/11 • 2011 Best Swedish Crime Novel Award (Bästa svenska kriminalroman) for Viskleken
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- 1.Bad Blood: The second Intercrime thriller: Arne Dahl: 9781846556760. Amazon.co.uk.
- 2.Arne Dahl - To the Top of the Mountain cover art and synopsis. upcoming4.me.
- 3.2nd series - Opcop. arnedahl.net.
- 4.BBC. BBC Four acquires two new dramas for a stellar Saturday night line-up in 2013. 11 March 2013.
- 5.Arne Dahl. BBC Four. April–June 2013.
- 6.Arne Dahl. MHz Networks. 2015.
- 7.This refers to the original date of broadcast on SVT1.
- 8.This refers to the original date of broadcast on BBC Four.
- 9.As collected by Mediamätning Sverige. See http://www.mms.se/hottop/hottop.asp , MMS (Last visited 26 May 2013).
- 10.As collected by BARB. See BARB, Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (last visited 26 May 2013).
- 11.Arne Dahl. BBC Four. 2015.
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