Sara Blædel (born 6 August 1964) is a Danish author. She is best known for her

crime fiction Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, ...

novels featuring Louise Rick. Blædel founded the "Sara B" crime fiction publishing company in 1993, and in 1995 she started to work as a journalist.

Personal life

Blædel was born in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

and grew up in

Hvalsø Hvalsø is a town and a former municipality (Danish, '' kommune'') in Region Sjælland on the island of Zealand (''Sjælland'') in east Denmark. The former municipality covered an area of 72 km2, and had a total population of 7,856 (2005). ...

, Denmark. She is the daughter of journalist Leif Blædel and actress Annegrethe Nissen.

Novels

Her novels have been published in 31 countries.

Scandinavia

Blædel's first novel was ''Grønt støv'', first published in Denmark in 2004, followed by ''Kald mig prinsesse'' (2005), ''Kun ét liv'' (2007), ''Aldrig mere fri'' (2008), ''Hævnens gudinde'' (2009), ''Dødsengelen'' (2010), and ''De glemte piger'' (2011). Until 2008, Blædel's books were published in Denmark by Lindhardt and Ringhof. Since 2008, her publisher has been People's Press. Blædel's publications in other Scandinavian countries include: * Sweden: ''Aldrig mera fri'' (2009), ''De bortglömda'' (2012) * Norway: ''De glemte pikene'' (2013), ''Bare ett liv'' (2009), ''Kall meg prinsesse'' (2007), ''Grönt støv'' (2007) * Finland: ''Nimimerkki Prinsessa'' (2013), ''Vain yksi elämä'' (2014), ''Hyvästit vapaudelle'' (2015) *

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: ''Hefndargyðjan'' (2011), ''Aldrei framar frjáls'' (2010), ''Aðeins Eitt Líf'' (2012), ''Kallaðu Mig Prinsessu''

North America

In May, 2013,

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bought ''The Forgotten Girls'' and the next book in the Louise Rick series. *United States and Canada: ''Farewell to Freedom'' (2012), ''Only One Life'' (2012), ''Call Me Princess'' (2011), ''In the Shadow of Sadd'' (2012; co-written with Steen Langstrup, Gretelise Holm, and Lars Kjaedegaard)

Europe

* United Kingdom: ''Blue Blood'' (2012) * Germany: ''Unschuld'' (2010), ''Nur ein Leben'' (2008), ''Tödliches Schweigen'' (2006), ''Grüner Schnee'' (2006) * Italy: ''Mai Più Libera'' (2012), ''Le Bambine Dimenticate'' (2017), ''La foresta assassina'' (2018) * Spain: ''Sin Salida'' (2010), ''Sin Piedad'' (2011) * Netherlands: ''Chatprinses'' (2010), ''De vergeten zusjes'' (2013) * Poland: ''Handlarz Śmiercią'' (2012), ''Mam na imię Księżniczka'' (2012), ''Tylko jedno życie'' (2013), ''Pożegnanie wolności'' (2013) * Greece: ''ΠΡΑΣΙΝΗ ΣΚΟΝΗ'' (2012) * Hungary: ''Bízz bennem'' (2009) * France: "Les filles oubliées" (2015)

Asia

* Korea: ''콜미 프린세스'' (2011) * Japan: ''見えない傷痕'' (2012)

Other publications

* ''Anne-Marie- dronning uden rige'' (2000) * ''Trods modvind - om at komme videre'' with

Hans Engell Hans Engell (born 8 October 1948) is a Denmark, Danish former politician and journalist, who until 6 September 2007 was the editor-in-chief of the tabloid ''Ekstra Bladet'', a position he had held for seven years. As a member of the Conservative Pe ...

Ritt Bjerregaard Ritt Bjerregaard (full name Jytte Ritt Bjerregaard; 19 May 1941 – 21 January 2023) was a Danish politician who was a member of the Danish Social Democrats, and was Lord Mayor of Copenhagen from 1 January 2006 to 2010. Bjerregaard was Educati ...

, Jarl Friis-Mikkelsen,

Ditte Gråbøl Ditte Gråbøl (born 22 June 1959 in Copenhagen) is a Danish actress. She trained at Aarhus Teater and graduated in 1984. Having worked at Jomfru Ane Teatret, she has appeared in a number of revues, among others the Cirkusrevyen more than once. Sh ...

, Mimi Jacobsen and

Flemming Enevold Flemming is a surname and a male given name referring, like the more common ''Fleming (disambiguation), Fleming'', to an inhabitant (or descendant thereof) of Flanders,

(2002) * ''Dødelig alvor'' with

Leif Davidsen Leif Davidsen (born 25 July 1950 in Otterup) is a Danish author and journalist. Career Educated as a journalist, in 1977 he started working in Spain as a freelance journalist for Danmarks Radio. In 1980 he began covering Soviet news with freq ...

(2012)

Recognition

Blædel has been voted Most Popular Author in Denmark four times.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Blaedel, Sara Women mystery writers 1964 births Danish women novelists Living people Danish women journalists 20th-century Danish women writers 20th-century Danish writers 20th-century Danish journalists 21st-century Danish novelists 21st-century Danish women writers Writers from Copenhagen Danish crime fiction writers