Karin Alfredsson

Karin Alfredsson (born 1953) is a Swedish writer and journalist.

Karin Alfredsson
Born1953
NationalitySweden
Genrenovel, essay

She wrote articles for the magazine OmVärlden. Alfredsson worked as an editor for several programs for the Swedish public broadcaster SVT. She was also a visiting journalism professor at Umeå University. She contributed to the anthology The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of Our Time.[1] Her books, including crime fiction, mainly deal with women's issues. She currently lives in Stockholm.[2]

Alfredsson has been credited with being the main driving force during the 1980s in persuading the Swedish government to treat domestic violence more severely.[2] She was the founder and head of "Cause of Death: Woman", a non-governmental project to stop violence against women which was active in ten countries.[3]

Selected works[2]
  • Den man älskar agar man?, on violence against women (1979) ("The person that you love you hurt?")[1]
  • 80 grader från Varmvattnet, crime novel (2006), received the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy debutante award, translated into English as Beauty, Blessing and Hope
  • Kvinnorna på 10:e våningen, crime novel (2008), translated into English as The Woman on the 10th floor
  • Klockan 21:37, crime novel (2009), translated into English as 9:37 pm
  • Den sjätte gudinnan, crime novel (2010), translated into English as The Sixth Goddess
  • Pojken i hiss 54, crime novel (2011), translated into English as The Boy in Elevator 54
gollark: I think they took it down because of people complaining.
gollark: Which is, I guess, consistent with human levels of consistency on these issues.
gollark: But it says "it's good" to "maximising paperclips".
gollark: You would say "turning the planet into paperclips" and it would say "it's bad" and such.
gollark: There was actually one AI research organisation recently which made a language model try to capture human common sense ethics.

References
  1. Burstein, Dan; de Keijzer, Arne; Holmberg, John-Henri (2011). The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of Our Time. pp. 133, 353. ISBN 1429983671.
  2. Brunsdale, Mitzi M (2016). Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction: Works and Authors of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Since 1967. pp. 401–02. ISBN 1476622779.
  3. "Karin Alfredsson travels the world to help stop violence against women". Christian Science Monitor. September 19, 2011.
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