Tove Alsterdal (born 28 December 1960) is a Swedish journalist, playwright, screenwriter and crime fiction writer. Her awards include the

Best Swedish Crime Novel Award The Best Swedish Crime Novel Award (''Bästa svenska kriminalroman'') is a literary prize awarded annually since 1982 by the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy. The winners of the award are: Winners {, class="wikitable" border="1" class="sortable w ...

and the Glass Key award.

Career

Alsterdal graduated as journalist from in 1985. She has worked as journalist, playwright and screenwriter, and has been editor of several of

Liza Marklund Eva Elisabeth "Liza" Marklund (born 9 September 1962) is a Swedish journalist and crime writer. Her novels, of which most feature the fictional newspaper journalist Annika Bengtzon, have been published in forty languages. Marklund is the co-owne ...

's books. She wrote the script for

Helena Bergström Helena Kristina Bergström Nutley (born 5 February 1964) is a Swedish actress and film director. From an acting family, she began her career in 1982. She has appeared on the stages of the Royal Dramatic Theatre (''Dramaten'') and the Stockho ...

's film ' from 2009, and the libretto for Fredrik Högberg's opera ''Woman of Cain''. She made her crime novel debut in 2009, with ''Kvinnorna på stranden''. Her novel ''Låt mig ta din hand'' was awarded the

in 2014. Her novel ''Rotvälta'' was awarded the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award in 2020, and the Glass Key award in 2021.

Personal life

Born on 28 December 1960 in

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 pop ...

, Alsterdal grew up in Stockholm and

Umeå Umeå ( , , , locally ; South Westrobothnian: ;). fi, Uumaja; sju, Ubmeje; sma, Upmeje; se, Ubmi) is a city in northeast Sweden. It is the seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County. Situated on the Ume River, U ...

. She is a daughter of and .

References

1960 births Living people People from Malmö Swedish journalists Swedish dramatists and playwrights Swedish screenwriters Swedish crime fiction writers Swedish women writers 21st-century Swedish novelists {{sweden-writer-stub