Kristina Ohlsson

Kristina Ohlsson (born 2 March 1979) is a Swedish political scientist and award-winning writer.

Not to be confused with Kristina Olsson or Kristina Olson.
Kristina Ohlsson
Born (1979-03-02) 2 March 1979
Kristianstad, Sweden
NationalitySwedish
GenreCrime Fiction

She grew up in Kristianstad and then moved to Gothenburg, where she studied Political Science. Then, she obtained a master’s degree in political science and crisis management from the Swedish Defence University in Stockholm.[1] Ohlsson has worked as a Counter-Terrorism Officer at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe; she has also worked for the Swedish Security Service, for the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and for the Swedish National Defense College. She lives in Stockholm.[2][3]

Besides her adult fiction, which includes a series featuring investigative analyst Fredrika Bergman, Ohlsson has also written a popular trilogy of children's suspense novels. In 2010, she was awarded the Stabilo Prize for Best Crime Writer of Southern Sweden.[3] In 2013, she received the Children's Novel Award from Sveriges Radio. In 2017, she was awarded the Crimetime Specsavers Award for children's crime fiction.[4]

Ohlsson's first novel Unwanted was adapted for Swedish TV as Sthlm Rekviem (Stockholm Requiem on Walter Presents in the UK).

Selected works[2][3]

Fredrika Bergman series

  • Askungar, crime novel (2009), translated as Unwanted (2012)
  • Tusenskönor , crime novel (2010), translated as Silenced (2012), shortlist for Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Best Crime Novel of the Year
  • Änglavakter , crime novel (2011), translated as The Disappeared (2013), shortlist for Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Best Crime Novel
  • Paradisoffer , crime novel (2012), translated as Hostage
  • Davidsstjärnor , crime novel (2013), translated as The Chosen
  • Syndafloder, crime novel (2017), translated as The Flood[4]

Martin Brenner series

  • Lotus BLues , crime novel (2014)
  • Mios BLues , crime novel (2015)

References
  1. "Kristina Ohlsson LinkedIn".
  2. "The Fredrika Bergman Series". Simon & Schuster Canada.
  3. Brunsdale, Mitzi M (2016). Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction: Works and Authors of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Since 1967. pp. 490–91. ISBN 978-0786475360.
  4. "Kristina Ohlsson". Salomonsson Agency.
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