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Åke Edwardson is awarded the Crimetime Award in the category Lifetime Achievement 2025

Posted on 11/09/2025 in

The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to an author who has been groundbreaking for Swedish crime fiction and put Sweden on the crime literature map. The prize will be awarded on Saturday, September 27 at 4:00 p.m. at the Gothenburg Book Fair. Previous recipients include Maj Sjöwall, Kerstin Ekman, Håkan Nesser, Åsa Larsson, and Jan Mårtenson.

From the jury’s citation:
A powerful stylist and one of the foremost in the genre, where melancholy always walks hand in hand with humor. With his well-crafted crime novels, he helped raise the status of the genre, bringing crime fiction into the literary salon, not least onto the culture pages of the daily press. He was also one of those who paved the way for the Nordic Noir phenomenon.