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Nils-Olof Franzén (1916–1997) was a Swedish writer who wrote the
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He was director of programmes for Swedish Radio from 1956 to 1973, and also wrote a number of biographies. The first of his Agaton Sax books, ''Agaton Sax klipper till'', was published in 1955. According to a description inside ''Agaton Sax and the Criminal Doubles'', Franzén originally wrote the stories for his son.
Nils-Olof Franzén (1916–1997) was a Swedish writer who wrote the Agaton Sax
Agaton Sax is the protagonist of a series of Swedish-language humorous detective novels written for children by Swedish author Nils-Olof Franzén and illustrated by Åke Lewerth. The English editions were illustrated by Quentin Blake.
The novels ...
series.Berry, C. (2016). Keeping "the Spirit of the Text": A Publishing and Translation History Case Study of Nils-Olof Franzén’s Detective Series Agaton Sax. Barnboken, 39. He was born 23 August 1916, in Oxelösund
Oxelösund is a locality and the seat of Oxelösund Municipality in Södermanland County, Sweden with 11,488 inhabitants in 2018. It is located less than south from the city centre of its larger neighbour Nyköping, with the two urban areas formi ...
. He died on 24 February 1997, at age 81. Franzén was married and had three children. His literary estate is represented bALIS
He was director of programmes for Swedish Radio from 1956 to 1973, and also wrote a number of biographies. The first of his Agaton Sax books, ''Agaton Sax klipper till'', was published in 1955. According to a description inside ''Agaton Sax and the Criminal Doubles'', Franzén originally wrote the stories for his son.
The books
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1916 births 1997 deaths People from Oxelösund Municipality Writers from Södermanland Swedish crime fiction writers {{Sweden-writer-stub