"from Denmark to Sweden following the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658. By 1866 Ystad had a railway connection and it was established as a garrison town in the 1890s. After World War II, ferry services to Poland and to the Danish island of Bornholm were opened. In 1658, Ystad's population was about 1,600 and, by 1850 it had reached 5,000. The increased importance brought by the railway and the garrison in the 1890s drove the population above 10,000. Ystad is the setting of the Swedish crime drama ""Wallander"". Some of the main industries of the town are trade, handicraft and"
"a series, and was made into a radio play for the official Norwegian channel NRK. The main protagonist in ""Tyskertøs"", ""Lena Karlsbu"" and her very diverse brothers and sisters become the heroes (and sometimes antiheroes) of the rest of the series. They became a vehicle that allowed Ustad to excavate several taboo real-life stories in later books. As he continued exploring this in the series, he received death threats from people who thought he was writing about abuse they had been involved in during the 1940s. Willy Ustad Willy Ustad (born 16 May 1946 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian novelist."
"Kurt Wallander Kurt Wallander () is a fictional character created by Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell (1948 – 2015). The protagonist of many mystery novels, set in and around the town of Ystad, south-east of the city of Malmö, in the southern province of Skåne. Wallander has been portrayed on screen by the actors Rolf Lassgård, Krister Henriksson and Kenneth Branagh. As a young police officer, he was nearly killed when a drunk whom he was questioning stabbed him with a butcher's knife (this is mentioned in the account of his first case). Wallander was once married, but his wife"
". Guillou and Mankell also co-wrote the Swedish crime-drama mini series ""Talismanen"" and here we also encounter Kurt Wallander as a supporting character, this time portrayed by actor Lennart Jähkel. Kurt Wallander Kurt Wallander () is a fictional character created by Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell (1948 – 2015). The protagonist of many mystery novels, set in and around the town of Ystad, south-east of the city of Malmö, in the southern province of Skåne. Wallander has been portrayed on screen by the actors Rolf Lassgård, Krister Henriksson and Kenneth Branagh. As a young police officer, he was nearly killed"
"Ystad, Sweden. In the novels, he solves shocking murders with his colleagues. The novels have an underlying question: ""What went wrong with Swedish society?"" The series has won many awards, including the German Crime Prize and the British 2001 CWA Gold Dagger for ""Sidetracked"" (1995). The ninth book, ""The Pyramid"" (1999), is a prequel about Wallander's past, covering the time until just before the start of ""Faceless Killers"" (1991). It includes a collection of five novellas: Ten years after ""The Pyramid"", Mankell published another Wallander novel, ""The Troubled Man"" (2009), which he said would definitely be the last in the"
"to bring his own interpretation of the character to the screen. Wallander's team at the Ystad police station is made up of: Anne-Britt Hoglund (Smart), Kalle Svedberg (Beard), and Magnus Martinsson (Hiddleston). Of Wallander and Hoglund, Smart said, ""Our relationship is based on this impeccable mutual respect which is all very Scandinavian and, actually, more interesting to play."" The team is joined at murder scenes by Nyberg (McCabe), a forensics expert. The team is overseen by Lisa Holgersson (Shimmin), Ystad's chief of police. Away from the police station, Wallander has a tempestuous relationship with his daughter Linda (Spark) and his"
"and Hungarian, among others. Jan Kjærstad Jan Kjærstad (born 6 March 1953 in Oslo) is a Norwegian author. Kjærstad is a theology graduate from MF Norwegian School of Theology and the University of Oslo (cand. theol.). He has written a string of novels, short stories and essays and was editor of the literary magazine ""Vinduet"" (""The Window""). He has received a number of prizes, the most important being the Nordic Council Literature Prize, which he received for the perspectivist trilogy about the TV personality Jonas Wergeland (""The Seducer"", ""The Conqueror"" and ""The Discoverer""). His books have been translated to English,"
"books have been adapted for television. Winter was played first by Johan Gry and later by Magnus Krepper. Åke Edwardson Åke Edwardson (born 10 March 1953 in Eksjö, Småland) is a Swedish author of detective fiction, and was previously a lecturer in journalism at Gothenburg University, the city where many of his Inspector Winter novels are set. Edwardson has had many jobs, including as a journalist and press officer for the United Nations, and his crime novels have made him a three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Award for best crime novel. His first novel to be translated"
"dubbed into German, in December 2015. The final series aired in the original English on BBC One in May 2016. Critics have written positively of the series, which has won a Broadcasting Press Guild Award (Best Actor for Branagh) and six British Academy Television Awards, including Best Drama Series. The series is based on Kurt Wallander (Branagh), a detective and police inspector in the small town of Ystad, Sweden. Branagh describes Wallander as ""an existentialist who is questioning what life is about and why he does what he does every day, and for whom acts of violence never become normal."
"real-estate agent outside Ystad. Upon the eventual recovery of her body, as well as the discovery of a severed black finger at the crime scene, Detective Chief Inspector Wallander realizes the case has deep roots in the history and current development in South Africa, where it appears that an extremist cell of the Broederbond is about to orchestrate the murder of F W de Klerk by an infamous black assassin, wishing to plunge the country into a long and devastating civil war. Mankell, who himself was deeply interested in questions concerning South Africa and its history and who used to"
"Mankell announced that he has a new ""Wallander"" book in the works. Several Swedish media outlets have speculated that the renewed Wallander interest in the UK and the warm reception of the BBC adaptations has sparked a new motivation in writing further Wallander novels; Mankell's last book starring the Ystad inspector was originally published in 1999. The new and final Kurt Wallander book, ""The Troubled Man"", was published in Swedish in August 2009. The increase in sales of the novels already published in the UK was also attributed to the television series. The series has resulted in a new interest"
"Jan Kjærstad Jan Kjærstad (born 6 March 1953 in Oslo) is a Norwegian author. Kjærstad is a theology graduate from MF Norwegian School of Theology and the University of Oslo (cand. theol.). He has written a string of novels, short stories and essays and was editor of the literary magazine ""Vinduet"" (""The Window""). He has received a number of prizes, the most important being the Nordic Council Literature Prize, which he received for the perspectivist trilogy about the TV personality Jonas Wergeland (""The Seducer"", ""The Conqueror"" and ""The Discoverer""). His books have been translated to English, French, German, Danish, Swedish,"
"three films that will make up Series 3. Mankell has worked closely with Harness on the scripts. ""He is too busy to talk to me all the time. But we have met to discuss the material, so he is involved in what happens"", Harness told ""Ystads Allehanda. Hiddleston and Shimmin did not return for this series. Actress Rebekah Staton portrays a new character, Kristina, in all three episodes of the new season. Mark Hadfield joins the cast as police officer Stefan Lindeman, one of the main characters in the first season of the Swedish ""Wallander"" TV series and the lead"
"12 weeks from April to July 2008 in Wallander's hometown of Ystad, Sweden. Location filming was principally set in Ystad. Interior sets were constructed at Ystad Studios under the supervision of Anders Olin, who also designed the sets of the Swedish ""Wallander"" films. The main police station set is 500 square metres, twice the size of Olin's previous sets. For exterior shots of the police station, a combination of the Ystad railway station and swimming pool was used. Mock-ups of ""Ystads Allehanda"", a local newspaper, were produced as working props. Producer Simon Moseley explained that the mock-ups use Swedish words"
"series. Linda is the daughter of Kurt Wallander, who follows in his footsteps as a police officer. Mankell began an intended trilogy of novels with her as the protagonist. However, following the suicide of Johanna Sällström, the actress playing the character at the time in the Swedish TV series, Mankell was so distraught that he decided to abandon the series after only the first novel. Henning Mankell Henning Georg Mankell (; 3February 19485October 2015) was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He"
"Øyulv Gran Øyulv Gran (1902 – 1972) was a Norwegian writer. His genres were crime and romance. Øyulv Gran frequently wrote under various pseudonyms including: Øivind / Øyvind Grundt, Brynjulf Bagge, Alf Ottar Karlsrud Rakstad, and Stein Winge. He is most associated with the stories he wrote which appeared in the magazine ""Detektiv-Magasinet"" about the fictional Oslo detective Knut Gribb. In 1908, Norwegian and author Sven Elvestad had created the fictional police detective Knut Gribb. The character was taken over by several other writers in various magazines and series of paperbacks. Starting in the 1970s, increasingly Øyulv Gran's presentation formed"
"with a marathon of series one and a speech by Yellow Bird producer Daniel Ahlqvist. Ystad was awarded the 2009 ""Stora Turismpriset"" (The Great Tourism Award). ""The brand of Ystad as a film- and tourism town has been strengthened due consequent and longsighted film investments"" said Pia Jönsson- Rajgård, President of Tourism in Skåne. Vintage Books published paperbacks of the first three adapted novels in Series One with tie-in covers featuring Branagh on 20 November 2008. The Series One DVD was published by 2 Entertain Video on 26 December 2008. It features all three films, the ""Who is Kurt Wallander?"""
"Europe in a country which is never named but resembles Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland and Germany. The names however are mostly Dutch. With his 2006 crime novel ""Människa utan hund"" (""Human without Dog"") Nesser introduced a new main character, Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti, a Swedish police inspector of Italian descent. He has remained the main protagonist in Nesser's crime books since then. Barbarotti is a more upbeat character than Van Veeteren and the books are firmly set in Sweden, although the town of Kymlinge is fictitious and named after an ""abandoned tube station"" in Stockholm. In August 2011 he hinted on"
"Sigurd Lybeck Sigurd Lybeck (25 September 1895 – 5 November 1975) was a Norwegian writer. He is most commonly associated with his writing featuring the popular literary figure, ""Jens von Bustenskjold"". Lybeck was born in the parish of Etnedal in Oppland, Norway. He was the youngest of four brothers raised on the Lybekk farm. He received training in Kristiania (nor Oslo) and was employed as a forest worker. He also wrote several popular novels and stories, mostly published as feuilletons in newspapers and magazines. He wrote in a popular humorous sequel style. His breakthrough was the series ""De giftegalne kaller"
"Wallander (Swedish TV series) Wallander () is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels, starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The first season of thirteen films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The second season of thirteen films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad, Skåne near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films ""Before the Frost"" (#1), ""Mastermind"" (#6), and ""The Secret"" (#13) were premiered in cinemas, with the rest first released"
"detective Ingvar Nyman to assist in solving the crime. They discover that they are pursuing a hit man, working for an American religious sect. In the second series, President of the United States Helen Tyler goes missing during a state visit to Sweden. Inger Johanne is partnered with Nyman and detailed to work with Warren Schifford, an FBI agent and Special Advisor to the president, to investigate. Vik and Schifford have history, dating from her time with the FBI. Modus (TV series) Modus is a Swedish television psychological thriller series, directed by Lisa Siwe and Mani Maserrat, based upon the"
"minutes from 21:15 to 01:00 to let the people of Ystad know that the town is safe from fire and enemies. The Tower Watchman also says a special line when sounding his horn: ""The clock strikes ... (for example twelve). All is quiet! From fire and thieves may God preserve the town!"" The tradition has existed since the eighteenth century. Ystad Ystad () is a town and the seat of Ystad Municipality in Skåne County, Sweden. Ystad had 18,350 inhabitants in 2010. The settlement dates back to the 11th century and has become a busy ferryport, local administrative centre and"
"of the police station. For the last two weeks, production moved to locations around the countryside of Österlen. On Monday evening 14 September, the Ystad city square was closed off to film an important action scene from ""The Man Who Smiled"" where Kurt Wallander comes running across the square as a car explodes. The clear blue September sky caused problems with the lighting and they had to wait until the sun started to set. Kenneth Branagh explained that the challenge for filming series one was to ""create"" the strange world of Ystad, in part as Henning Mankell sees it, in"
"the true target, Stenström himself, who was spending his free time unofficially investigating the murder of a Portuguese prostitute sixteen years earlier in an attempt to solve the case and demonstrate his skills to his older police comrades. Beck must now complete Stenstrom's work by solving the earlier murder in order to identify Stenstrom's killer. To solve the case, Beck calls on several outsiders: Detective Richard Ullholm, a reactionary who lodges formal complaints to the Parliamentary Ombudsman regarding his fellow officers as a hobby; Malmö Detective Per Månsson (introduced in a previous novel), the man who can find anything; and"
"Text. Mari Jungstedt lives in Stockholm. Her husband comes from Visby, Gotland, and they spend their summers on Gotland. Mari Jungstedt Mari Jungstedt (born 31 October 1962 in Stockholm) is a Swedish journalist and crime fiction author. Jungstedt worked as a reporter on Swedish national public radio and television, and was an occasional presenter on TV4's daily talk show Förkväll. Her first five novels are set on the island of Gotland and feature Detective Superintendent Anders Knutas and the journalist Johan Berg. Two of her novels were filmed for Swedish TV, and her work has been translated into English by"
"Southern Norway. Two violent deaths are connected to a local ghost legend. The possible connections puzzles the narrator, and he find himself threatened by the visiting detective, Krag. The narrative is complex, with a point of view that lets the author juggle with several levels of knowledge: What puzzles the reader might, or might not also puzzle the narrator and the murderer. In this novel, Elvestad used a certain narrative trick that was later ascribed to Agatha Christie. In later thrillers (of which some were published under his real name) Elvestad plays on Freudian theories of the sub-conscious. In his"
"The Troubled Man The Troubled Man (Swedish: ""Den orolige mannen"") is a crime fiction novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, featuring police inspector Kurt Wallander. It is the twelfth and final novel in the Wallander series. The pace of ""The Troubled Man"" is significantly slower than the previous Wallander stories, with several chapters between murders.[1] A highly-decorated Swedish naval officer, Håkan von Enke, disappears during his daily walk. For Kurt Wallander this becomes a very personal case as Von Enke is Linda Wallander's father-in-law. The clues lead back in time to the Cold War and hired killers from Eastern Europe."
"about a Scandinavian ex-convict living in Thailand and ""Hassel"", an updated dark and gritty cop show based on a classic series of books from the 70's and 80's. This was a cop show he also executive produced. While he has worked many cop shows, Rapace has been very critical of the genre. In 2012 he told Cafe Magazine: ""All the ""Wallander"" and ""Beck"" films are worthless. There is no credibility, it does not work to investigate thousands of murders in Ystad year after year. In the end it becomes a joke, and the quality becomes so low that one has"
"Yellow Bird has also produced six TV movies about criminal inspector Irene Huss, based on the books by Helene Tursten. In March 2009 the company acquired the film rights for Norwegian crime writer Anne Holt's books about inspector Yngvar Stubø and Inger Johanne Vik – a psychologist and lawyer with a previous career in the FBI. In April 2009 the company announced they optioned film rights for Norwegian author Jo Nesbø's most recent novel Headhunters. The company purchased the rights to ""Blekingegadeligan"", the bestselling book by Danish journalist Peter Øvig Knudsen about The Blekinge Street Gang, a group of about"
"became a full-time author. In August 2006, Håkan Nesser and his wife Elke (a psychiatrist) moved to Greenwich Village in New York. A few years later the couple packed their bags and moved to London since it was easier for his wife to find work there. When in Sweden, Nesser lives on the Gotlandic island of Furillen in the Baltic Sea. A recurring main character is called Van Veeteren, a detective in the early novels and later the owner of an antique books shop. These books play out in a fictitious city called Maardam, said to be located in northern"
"writer of detective novels is Henning Mankell, whose works have been translated into 37 languages. In the spy fiction genre, the most successful writer is Jan Guillou. In recent decades, a handful of Swedish writers have established themselves internationally, such as the detective novelist Henning Mankell and thriller writer Stieg Larsson. Also well known outside of Sweden is the children's book writer Astrid Lindgren, author of works such as Pippi Longstocking and Emil of Maple Hills. There is also a strong tradition of Sweden as a literary language in Finland; after the separation in the start of the 19th century,"
"Inspector Wallander suspects that he may be dealing with the worst spy scandal in Swedish history. At the same time, Wallander is also dealing with the onset of dementia, and in particular, with the loss of his memory. Henning Mankell had originally planned to write no more Wallander stories after the publication of the short story collection ""The Pyramid"" (""Pyramiden"") in 1999. However, the novel ""Before the Frost"" (""Innan frosten"") appeared in 2002, shifting the focus of the stories to Wallander's daughter Linda, who has joined the police force and is assigned to her father's station in Ystad. Mankell planned"
"to include Ystad in what they can offer their clients"" says Marie Holmström, tourism coordinator with Ystad tourism agency. ""This year (2009) we have 30% more hotel bookings from Great Britain, compared to last year. Kenneth Branagh says many good things about this town and we have received many requests from British press"". Jolanta Olsson, tourism coordinator with Ystad tourism agency, says they get many requests from visiting Britons concerning shooting locations and where the film crew reside. Starting in October 2009, Ystad will start hosting a film festival with a focus on crime fiction. The festival is kick started"