Hakan Nesser
1950
Hakan Nesser is a well known Swedish author and a teacher by profession, who has written a number of successful novels in the Mystery and Thriller genres. His novels, mostly depict crime fiction plots and have been quite popular all over the world. The successful writing career of Nesser can be understood from the fact that he has won the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award for 3 times in his career. Also, in the year 2000, he won the Glass Key award for one of his novels. Nesser has written a total of around 20 crime novels under three different series’, all of which have been very popular. He is particularly famous for characterizing the two main protagonists, Inspector Van Veeteren and Inspector Barbarotti. The novels written by Nesser have been translated from Swedish to a number of other languages of the world and have also sold millions of copies all over the world. Nesser was on February 21, 1950 in Kumla, Sweden. He was raised in Kumla and has lived mostly in Uppsala. Nesser began his writing career in the year 1988, however, he did not take it seriously until the year 1998 when he started writing as a full-time writer. He used to work as a teacher before becoming a full-time author.