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Place of Birth: Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden
About Åsa Larsson
- Åsa Larsson (born 28 June 1966) is a Swedish crime-fiction writer.
- Although born in Uppsala, she was raised in Kiruna in the far north.
- Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Larsson was a tax lawyer, a profession she shares with the heroine of her novels, Rebecka Martinsson.
- Her first Rebecka Martinsson novel, Solstorm, was awarded the Swedish Crime Writers' Association prize for best first novel.
- It was published in the UK (under the title The Savage Altar) and was shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger.
- Her second Rebecka Martinsson novel, Det blod som spillts, won the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award.
- Till offer åt Molok, her fifth Rebecka Martinsson novel also won the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award.
- The 2007 Swedish film Solstorm was based on the book The Savage Altar. She is a granddaughter of the Olympic skier Erik August Larsson.
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