Karin Alfredsson

Karin Alfredsson
Born	1953 (age 71–72)
Nationality	Swedish
Genre	Novel, essay

Karin Alfredsson (born 1953) is a Swedish writer and journalist.

In 1980 she was named as the editor-in-chief of Journalisten, publication of the Swedish Journalists Association.[1] She wrote articles for the magazine OmVärlden. Alfredsson worked as an editor for several programs for the Swedish public broadcaster SVT. She was also a visiting journalism professor at Umeå University. She contributed to the anthology The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of Our Time.[2] Her books, including crime fiction, mainly deal with women's issues. She currently lives in Stockholm.[3]

Alfredsson has been credited with being the main driving force during the 1980s in persuading the Swedish government to treat domestic violence more severely.[3] She was the founder and head of "Cause of Death: Woman", a non-governmental project to stop violence against women which was active in ten countries.[4]

Selected works

Her major work include:[3]

• Den man älskar agar man?, on violence against women (1979) ("The person that you love you hurt?")[2]
• 80 grader från Varmvattnet, crime novel (2006), received the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy debutante award, translated into English as Beauty, Blessing and Hope
• Kvinnorna på 10:e våningen, crime novel (2008), translated into English as The Woman on the 10th floor
• Klockan 21:37, crime novel (2009), translated into English as 9:37 pm
• Den sjätte gudinnan, crime novel (2010), translated into English as The Sixth Goddess
• Pojken i hiss 54, crime novel (2011), translated into English as The Boy in Elevator 54

References

1. Heidi Kurvinen (2019). "Women's non-unionised activism in Swedish newsrooms, 1961–89". Women's History Review. 28 (7): 1117. doi:10.1080/09612025.2019.1616884.
2. Burstein, Dan; de Keijzer, Arne; Holmberg, John-Henri (2011). The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of Our Time. pp. 133, 353. ISBN 978-1429983679.
3. Brunsdale, Mitzi M (2016). Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction: Works and Authors of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Since 1967. pp. 401–02. ISBN 978-1476622774.
4. "Karin Alfredsson travels the world to help stop violence against women". The Christian Science Monitor. 19 September 2011.

External links

• "Karin Alfredsson's web site".