Jan-Olof Ekholm (20 October 1931 – 14 January 2020) was a Swedish
detective fiction
Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an criminal investigation, investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around ...
writer born in Grytnäs,
Dalarna
Dalarna (; ), also referred to by the English exonyms Dalecarlia and the Dales, is a (historical province) in central Sweden.
Dalarna adjoins Härjedalen, Hälsingland, Gästrikland, Västmanland and Värmland. It is also bordered by Nor ...
, Sweden, also known for some
children's literature
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. In addition to conventional literary genres, modern children's literature is classified by the intended age of the reade ...
works. He was one of the members of the presidium of the
Swedish Crime Writers' Academy The Swedish Crime Fiction Academy (Swedish: ''Svenska Deckarakademin''), is a Sweden, Swedish organization set up in 1971 to promote quality in Swedish detective fiction and crime fiction. (Svenska Deckarakademin). Ekholm's books have been translated to Norwegian, Danish, German, Russian, Ukrainian, and Czech.
Ekholm died, age 88, on 14 January 2020.
Awards
* Svenska Deckarakademin (Swedish Detective Academy) award in 1979 for his non-fiction work Mälarmördaren.
* Temmelburken detective fiction award in 2000.
Movies
* A movie based on Ekholm's early children's book ''Hurra för Ludvig Lurifax'' (1965) was produced in Soviet Union in 1984 under the title ''Ryzhiy chestnyy vlyublyonnyy'' (red, honest, in love)
* A Swedish murder mystery movie ''Sista körningen'' (1996) was co-written by Jan-Olof Ekholm.
IMDB entry for Sista körningen
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1931 births
2020 deaths
People from Avesta Municipality
Writers from Dalarna County
Swedish crime fiction writers
Swedish children's writers
Swedish-language writers
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