Åke Edwardson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Åke Edwardson

Swedish author

Date of Birth: 10-Mar-1953

Place of Birth: Eksjö, Jönköping County, Sweden

Profession: writer, university teacher, journalist, children's writer

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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 into English, in 2005, was Sun and Shadow.
The second, Never End, followed in 2006.