Andreas Norman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Andreas Norman

Swedish writer

Date of Birth: 23-Oct-1972

Place of Birth: Farsta, Sweden

Profession: writer

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Andreas Norman

  • Jakob "Andreas" Norman, (born 23 October 1972 in Farsta in Stockholm), is a Swedish writer. Norman is the son of psychoanalyst Johan Norman and social anthropologist Karin Norman, as well as being the grandson of lecturer Nils Norman and diplomat Kjell Öberg.
  • He holds a pol.
  • mag.
  • degree and worked for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Sweden) between 2003 and 2013.
  • His experiences and counter-terrorism work have particularly influenced his writing.
  • Following the 2004 tsunami, Norman was sent to Thailand, where he participated in the crisis management in the aftermath. Norman made his literary debut with a collection of poems in 1996.
  • In 2013, his first novel, titled "En rasande eld" was published in Swedish.
  • The book was published by Quercus in an English translation, Into A Raging Blaze, by Ian Giles in 2014.
  • The plot follows protagonists Carina Dymek, a young civil servant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who is suspended following suspicions that she is collaborating with a terrorist network, and Bente Jensen, a veteran in the Swedish Security Service's counter-terrorism division.
  • The book depicts the contemporary trends of global surveillance, the fight against terror and the tough international game being played by various intelligence services against each other.
  • "Into A Raging Blaze" is the first part of a planned trilogy. In 2015, it was announced that "Into A Raging Blaze" had been shortlisted by The Crime Writers' Association for the CWA International Dagger. 9,3 pÃ¥ Richterskalan (9.3 on the Richter Scale) is an eyewitness account of the crisis management that took place in Thailand and Stockholm after the 2004 tsunami.
  • The book came out in October 2014 and was dramatised during the autumn of 2014 as a monologue.
  • The play premièred at Malmö City Theatre 2015 and was directed by Sara Cronberg.Into A Raging Blaze is being made into a film in Sweden by the Tre Vänner production company, with the screenplay being written by Oskar Söderlund.
  • The film is expected to première in the spring of 2016.

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