Kerstin Ekman
Kerstin Lillemor Ekman is a Swedish novelist.
Life and career
Kerstin Ekman wrote a string of successful detective novels but later went on to psychological and social themes. Among her later works is Mörker och blåbärsris and Händelser vid vatten, in which she returned to the form of the detective novel.Ekman was elected member of the Swedish Academy in 1978, but left the Academy in 1989, together with Lars Gyllensten and Werner Aspenström, due to the debate following death threats posed to Salman Rushdie. In 2018, the Academy granted her resignation, the rules of membership having changed to allow members to resign.
In 1998, she was awarded the Litteris et Artibus medal.
Partial bibliography
Blackwater, translated by Joan Tate, 1996Under the Snow, translated by Joan Tate, 1997The Forest of Hours, translated 1998Grand final i skojarbranschen- ''Då var allt levande och lustigt : om Clas Bjerkander : Linnélärjunge, präst och naturforskare i Västergötland''