[SKRIVA] Deckardrottning Maj om kolleger: för litet polis, för mycket kärlek
- From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 22:22:30 +0200
Maj Sjöwall var tillsammans med Per Wahlöö en av de stora anledningarna till
"det svenska deckarundret". Brittiska The Guardian fångade henne på en
litteraturfestival:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/14/sweden-crime-writers-interested-love
"Sweden's crime writers too interested in love, says Maj Sjöwall
Too much romance and too little police work in today's thrillers, says
architect of modern Scandinavian crime thrillers.
The grandmother of Scandinavian crime writing has said her counterparts today
are too concerned with screen adaptations of their work and "are not about
police work and crime, but very much about love and relationships like girls'
books". ...
"When we were writing no one was interested in the authors. Now the writers
are themselves almost like film stars," she told audiences at the Edinburgh
international book festival.
She described how a political engagement as Communist party members led to
her and Wahlöö writing the Beck novels.
"When we began, there were no police procedurals, just Agatha Christie-type
stories with amateur detectives," Sjöwall said. "But we wanted to present a
view of our society and to describe an era and a time in Sweden."
This "new kind of genre", she said, produced a new kind of reader: a young,
politically radical generation of Swedes. Their project was to show "how the
social democrats were pushing the country in a more and more bourgeois and
rightwing direction. ...
The last word of the last novel in the series is "Marx" though Sjöwall left
the party and describes herself now as a socialist. ...
The couple would discuss the stories in detail, establishing a shared
language between them. "We were talking, talking, talking about our characters:
what did they think, what did they do." Having worked out a 30-chapter
synopsis, at night, after the three children were in bed (a girl from a
previous relationship of Sjöwall's and two boys) they would set out to write.
They would sit at opposite ends of the table: one of them would take the first
chapter, the other the second. The next night they would swap, typing up each
other's work and editing along the way.
Crime writer Ian Rankin, who was chairing the event, pointed out that it was
Sjöwall who "we have to blame for all us British crime writers who have to walk
past tables and tables of Scandinavian crime fiction". "Jo", she replied
succinctly and with a wicked grin."
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