Who are some good Swedish/Scandinavian writers?

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I have just finished reading Henning Mankell's Joel Gustafson series. Although this series of books is aimed at teens I found it interesting and continued with it through the whole series. I am now reading "The girl with the dragon tattoo" by Steig Larsson and I am very much enjoying that. Is there any other Swedish/Scandinavian authors that are good. I don't really mind what type of genre that they write in as I read a wide variety of books and I am interested in lots of different subjects.

sibbi · Accepted Answer

If you like Henning Mankell you'll love Arnaldur Indridason, he's an Icelandic crime writer:
http://www.amazon.com/Arnaldur-Indridason/e/B001ILIBV0
He writes in the same dark realism style as Mankell

D S · Answer

Out of Africa   	 Dinesen, Isak
Blackwater   	 Ekman, Kerstin
Don't Look Back   	 Fossum, Karin
Sophie's World   	 Gaarder, Jostein
Growth of the Soil   	 Hamsun, Knut
A Doll's House  by Henrik Johan Ibsen
The Summer Book  by Tove Jansson
The Discoverer   	 KjÃ¦rstad, Jan
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson
Roseanna (Martin Beck #1)   	 SjÃ¶wall, Maj
Miss Julie   	 Strindberg, August

Serendipity · Answer

You like Swedish detective and/crime stories? That's a very popular genre in Sweden.

Jan Guillou (writes in a variety of different genres)
SjÃ¶wall and WahlÃ¶Ã¶
Arne Dahl
HÃ¥kan Nesser
Liza Marklund
Jens Lapidus
Camilla LÃ¤ckberg
Ãke Edwardsson

etc etc ;)

? · Answer

If you like philosophy, try Soren Kierkegaard.  He is my favorite philosopher.  Kierkegaard is a truly brilliant writer.  You might enjoy his Journals.

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Who are some good Swedish/Scandinavian writers?

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