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Folke Mellvig
Karl Folke Sigvard Mellvig (23 May 1913 in Malmö, Sweden–4 September 1994 in Haninge Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden) was a Swedish writer and screenwriter. Mellvig was one of Sweden's most popular crime writers in the 1950s and 1960s, with murder mysteries set in "peaceful" Swedish summer time; at countryside locations and often in aristocratic or upper-class environments. His crime-solving middle-class city couple Kajsa and John Hillman (with their fumbling assistant Freddy) are famous, later on popular characters in the early Swedish thriller/crime films - the so-called "Hillman-thrillers", directed by Arne Mattsson (all with an effectful colour in the title). The most successful of these films were ''The Lady in Black'' and ''Mannequin in Red'' (both released in 1958). The first book on the Hillman-couple was published in 1951 ''(Uppdrag för Hillman/"A Mission For Hillman")'' and then several books followed on the couple but only a few selected were adapted to fil ...
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Malmö
Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal population of 350,647 in 2021. The Malmö Metropolitan Region is home to over 700,000 people, and the Øresund Region, which includes Malmö and Copenhagen, is home to 4 million people. Malmö was one of the earliest and most industrialised towns in Scandinavia, but it struggled to adapt to post-industrialism. Since the 2000 completion of the Öresund Bridge, Malmö has undergone a major transformation, producing new architectural developments, supporting new biotech and IT companies, and attracting students through Malmö University and other higher education facilities. Over time, Malmö's demographics have changed and by the turn of the 2020s almost half the municipal population had a foreign background. The city contains many histori ...
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1960 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1960. – Mervyn Griffith-Jones prosecuting in the ''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' case Events *February–October – ''Astounding'' magazine is renamed ''Analog''. *Spring – August Derleth launches the poetry magazine, ''Hawk and Whippoorwill'' in the United States. *March 22 – Joan Henry's play '' Look on Tempests'' is premièred at the Comedy Theatre in London's West End, as the first play dealing openly with homosexuality to be passed for performance by the Lord Chamberlain in Britain. *April 27 – Harold Pinter's play ''The Caretaker'' is premièred at the Arts Theatre Club in London's West End, transferring to the Duchess Theatre the following month, where it runs for 444 performances before departing from London for Broadway, Pinter's first significant commercial success. Alan Bates and Donald Pleasence star in the original production. *July 11 – Harper Lee's Southern Gothic ''Bildungsr ...
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1970 In Television
The year 1970 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of notable television-related events in that year. Events *January 1 – WXTV becomes a full time Spanish-language station based in Paterson, New Jersey, which it remains into the 21st century, in this case, becomes an affiliate of SIN, the network's first affiliate east of the Mississippi River. *January 3 – Jon Pertwee makes his first appearance as the Third Doctor in the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''Spearhead from Space''. It also marks the first time that the series is broadcast in colour. *January 19 – CBS in the United States launches ''Operation 100'', a plan to beat NBC's ratings in the last 100 days of the season, using the slogan "The man can't bust our network." *February 7 – ''The Hollywood Palace'' variety series airs its 192nd and final hour-long episode on ABC, with Bing Crosby in his 31st appearance as guest host. *March 7 – The "eclipse of the century" is covered by all three American ...
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1942 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1942. Events *January 1 – The U.K. Book Production War Economy Agreement comes into force. *February 20 – Jean Bruller's novella ''Le Silence de la mer'' (Silence of the Sea), about resistance to the Nazi occupation of France, is issued clandestinely as the first publication of Les Éditions de Minuit in Paris, under the pseudonym "Vercors". A hundred copies are distributed from late summer; the rest are destroyed by the occupying authorities. *February 22 – The Austrian-born novelist Stefan Zweig and his wife Lotte are found dead of a barbiturate overdose in their home in Petrópolis, Brazil, leaving notes indicating despair at the future of European civilization. The manuscript of Zweig's autobiography ''The World of Yesterday'', posted to his publisher a day earlier, is first published in Stockholm later in the year as ''Die Welt von Gestern''. *March – Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotic ...
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1948 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1948. Events * January 6 – The poet Pablo Neruda speaks out in the Senate of Chile against political repression and is forced into hiding. *January 28 – A debate between Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston on the existence of God is broadcast by the BBC. * February 5 – A private assembly of 50 major literary and artistic figures listens to a recording of Antonin Artaud's play ''Pour en Finir avec le Jugement de dieu'' (To Have Done With the Judgment of God), whose broadcast on French radio three days earlier has been prohibited. * February 17–November 24 – Venezuelan novelist Rómulo Gallegos serves as his country's first correctly elected President, until overthrown in a military coup. *March 21 – Halldor Laxness's ''The Atom Station (Atómstöðin)'' sells out all copies on its first day of publication. *May – Bertolt Brecht's ''The Caucasian Chalk Circle'' (1944) is first pe ...
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1951 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1951. — Opening lines of ''The Catcher in the Rye'' Events *January 12 – Janie Moore, C. S. Lewis' so-called adoptive mother, dies. *March – The American writer Flannery O'Connor leaves hospital after being diagnosed with lupus at the age of 25. *March 12 – Hank Ketcham's U.S. '' Dennis the Menace'' appears for the first time in 16 United States newspapers. *March 17 – The homonymous U.K. '' Dennis the Menace'' comic strip first appears in the children's comic ''The Beano''. *Spring – Arthur C. Clarke's short story " The Sentinel", which will form a basis for the film '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'' (1968) and a subsequent novel, is published as "Sentinel of Eternity" in the only issue ever produced of the American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine ''10 Story Fantasy''. *May – Joe Orton enters the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where he meets his lover and ultimate murderer ...
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1952 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1952. Events *February – The historical periodical '' Past & Present'' is launched in Oxford, U.K. *February 29 – Derek J. de Solla Price reveals his discovery of a lost medieval scientific work entitled ''Equatorie of the Planetis'', initially attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer, in the Times Literary Supplement. *March 3 – J. L. Carr takes over as Headmaster of Highfields Primary School, Kettering, which will later feature in his novel '' The Harpole Report''. *May – The works of André Gide are placed on the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books by Pope Pius XII. *July 10 – The first issue appears of '' Mad'', edited by Harvey Kurtzman and published by William M. Gaines' EC Comics. *August 12 – The Night of the Murdered Poets brings the execution of 13 Soviet Jews in Lubyanka Prison, Moscow, including several writers. *September 6 – The Universal Copyright Convention is adopted at G ...
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1953 In Literature
Events from the year 1953 in literature . Events *January 5 – '' Waiting For Godot'', a play by the Irish writer Samuel Beckett, has its first public stage performance, in French as ''En attendant Godot'', at the in Paris. Beckett's novel '' The Unnamable'' is also published in French this year. * January 22 – ''The Crucible'', a historical drama by Arthur Miller written as an allegory of McCarthyism, opens on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre. * February 19 – The State of Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States. * April 13 – The face of popular literature changes with the publication of Ian Fleming's novel '' Casino Royale'', introducing the British spy character James Bond. *May – The semi-autobiographical '' Go Tell It on the Mountain'' by James Baldwin is published. In 2001, it will be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editors of the American Modern Library. *June 17 – Bert ...
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1954 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1954. Events *January – Kingsley Amis's first novel, the comic campus novel ''Lucky Jim'', is published by Victor Gollancz Ltd in London. *January 7 – The Georgetown–IBM experiment is the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, held in New York at the IBM head office. *January 25 – Dylan Thomas's radio play ''Under Milk Wood'' is first broadcast in the U.K. on the BBC Third Programme, two months after its author's death, with Richard Burton as "First Voice". *February – ''The London Magazine'' is revived as a literary magazine, with John Lehmann as editor. *March 31 – A. L. Zissu is sentenced in Bucharest to life imprisonment for "conspiring against the social order". This has been a focal point in the anti-Zionist clampdown in Communist Romania. *May 29 – The rediscovered and restored early 17th-century Corral de comedias de Almagro in Spain is re-inaugurated with ...
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1955 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1955. Events *February 8 – Jin Yong's first ''wuxia'' novel, ''The Book and the Sword'' (書劍恩仇錄), begins publication in the ''New Evening Post'' (Hong Kong), where he is an editor. *March 3 – Jean Cocteau is elected to the ''Académie française'' (inducted October 20); on January 8 he has been elected to the ''Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique'' (inducted October 1). *April 16 – Sir Laurence Olivier's film version of Shakespeare's ''Richard III'' is released in U.K. cinemas. *July 10 – Jorge Luis Borges is appointed Director of the National Library of the Argentine Republic. *July 14 – Director Stephen Joseph sets up Britain's first theatre in the round at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, predecessor of the Stephen Joseph Theatre. *July 30 – The English poet Philip Larkin, having become University Librarian at the University of Hull on March 2 ...
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1956 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1956. Events *c. January – The first book in Ed McBain's long-running 87th Precinct police procedural series, ''Cop Hater'', is published in the United States under Evan Hunter's new pseudonym. *February 2 – Eugene O'Neill's semi-autobiographical '' Long Day's Journey into Night'' (completed in 1942) receives a posthumous world première at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, in Swedish (''Lång dags färd mot natt''), directed by Bengt Ekerot and starring Lars Hanson. Its Broadway debut at the Helen Hayes Theatre on November 7 follows an American première at the Shubert Theatre (New Haven). *February 25 – The English poet Ted Hughes and American poet Sylvia Plath meet in Cambridge, England. *March 11 – The U.S. release of Sir Laurence Olivier's film version of Shakespeare's ''Richard III'' plays simultaneously on NBC network television and as afternoon matinée screenings in movie theater ...
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